I Wear My Heart on My Forehead
…and other thoughts on being vulnerable
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6 min readJul 24, 2019
When I was a little girl, I had a birthmark that came down from my hairline to the middle of my forehead in a bright red splotch. As I got older, it began to fade away but would intensify and make itself known whenever I was angry or upset or if I cried.