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Freckles

I defy you to find anyone with more freckles than me.

Of course, when I was a child I hated them. I was called Freckleface. My sister would chase me down and taunt me about how I even had freckles under my hair.

I remember being a child at the swimming pool in my favourite striped bathing suit. A younger child came up to me and said, Ew, whats that all over you? I went back and told my mother thinking the kid was talking about the stripes on my bathing suit. Honey I think he meant your freckles. Oh.

It didnt matter how many times my aunt told me they were angel kisses. I hated them.

I hated them in kindergarten I hated them in middle school I hated them in high school.

And then something changed.

I started to realize how nice it was to have a defining feature. I noticed how good the freckles looked on my shoulders. I liked how the summer sun made the freckles on my nose stand out.

Instead of teasing me about them the boys started to compliment me on them.

The final step when my new tattoo was done a couple of months ago my favourite thing about it was the way my freckles showed through the ink.

I love my freckles.