"Am I Really Pretty?"

My daughter's ritual of appraising her looks turned out to be less about meeting beauty standards and more a teenage awakening of self and exploration of racial differences.

June 1, 2007

In asking that question, was our teenage daughter really asking, Who am I? What am I becoming? How am I different from others?

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