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…

I was born with a thick crown of dark hair and fists that grasped blindly at the cold, sanitized air.

Yet, I was also born with a glaring, undeniable flaw—at least in the eyes of the two people whose DNA I had unfortunately inherited.

Across the entire left hemisphere of my face, stretching from my temple down to the soft curve of my jawline, lay a continue reading …