When the wealthy couple saw their newborn’s face, the mother gasped, “Take him away, he’s a monster.” They abandoned him at the hospital. A kind nurse raised him. Twenty years later, the couple desperately needed a rare surgery. The world-famous surgeon walked in, revealed his birthmark, and…

knuckles bleeding and my chest heaving, having finally shoved a boy who had mocked me for twenty minutes straight. I threw my backpack violently against the kitchen wall and collapsed into a chair, the tears I had fought all day finally spilling hot and fast down my face.

“Mom,” I sobbed, my voice ragged. “Why did God make me so ugly? If I just looked continue reading …