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…

aesthetic dermatology empire. Their entire lives, their multi-million-dollar clinics, their philanthropic galas, and their magazine covers were wholly dependent on the commodification of absolute, symmetrical perfection. They sold the illusion of flawlessness.

And then, I arrived. A living, breathing imperfection. A stain on their pristine legacy.

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