Clarisse King

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“Misunderstanding ” by Clarisse King

Submitted to Contest #225

Giana’s beauty, hypnotic in its perfection, never dulled. Even when she scowled, she was glowing. I met Giana in the sixth grade. This was the same year that I read a study in some vicious Cosmo. The study claimed that ninety percent of a randomly sampled population found frowning to be unattractive, aesthetically unappealing to the eye. So ladies, the magazine had urged, remember to show those pearly whites. I had self-consciously consumed the piece with fervent desperation; I needed to be loved as those pink-cheeked, grinning models were...

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