The Story Behind
"She'd been self-conscious about the mole on her face since she was twenty.
She'd had it lasered once. It left a small scar that ended up more noticeable than the mole itself.
After that, she stopped thinking about it.
At thirty, she did a portrait shoot. The photographer said her profile was very distinctive.
""In what way?"" she asked.
""The mole,"" he said. ""It gives you something. Like there's a story there.""
She blinked. Then laughed.
A story — she'd lasered it once, got a scar, spent the next ten years making peace with it. That was definitely a story.
She never thought about removing it again.
The things on your body you used to call flaws — sometimes those are exactly the things people remember you by."
A natural pearl's surface is never perfectly smooth — those tiny irregularities are precisely what distinguishes it from imitation. This stud is for anyone who has decided to stop editing themselves.
