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Beauty From Hell

They say the deepest scars create the strongest souls. I have walked through fire and tasted ash — and still I bloom.

Makena Brandon · 1 min read

They say the deepest scars create the strongest souls, that beauty blooms from broken ground. I've walked through fire

and tasted ash. I've held my own undoing in both hands and called it home. And still — somehow —

I bloom. Not because the hell was kind, but because something in me refused to die there.

— Makena Brandon · Discussion Newspaper Network Publishers