Beautiful Ugly and Ugly Beautiful People

I am astonished. My own thoughts around this topic are stark. The roots of my family tree are filled with stories. Some of them nourish me and have sustained me. Most of them haunt or seek to destroy.

I am from some very privileged colonizers. That is until my parents dropped the egg. Luckily, my grandparents on one side of the family had “made it”, and WOW they gave us gifts and wonderful vacatio…