Everyone wants to feel beautiful. It seems these days that beauty is all we want. Everyone wants to be pretty or skinny; more beautiful than all the rest.

Well, the way I see it, everyone is beautiful. No matter what you look like or who you are, you have beauty. Everyone's beauty is seen by someone. You might not even see it in yourself, but someone else sees beauty in you.

Lately I've been promoting a site called operationbeautiful.com. Operation Beautiful is a site devoted to ending low self esteem. It's there to make us all feel good about ourselves, no matter what we look like. We're all beautiful in some way or another. Operation Beautiful wants you to see that beauty.

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BabyPowdr reports on a vaccine.

Editor's Note: This article deals with a mature subject matter. If you are under the age of 13, I encourage you to have a parent/guardian read this prior to you reading it. Also I encourage everyone to please discuss with your parents/guardians after reading.

On the forum there is a massive thread about this new vaccine. And there seem to be differing opinions on it and a lot of misunderstood information so I just want to take a moment to talk to the young ladies of Whyville about why things like this vaccine are important. When I was 13, we didn't have this option. I didn't even know what HPV was when I was 13 because they classified genital warts as it's own disease, and cervical cancer was only for old people. This past summer I was told that there is a chance I have cervical cancer from HPV and I go back this October for more intensive screening. They suggested that I get the Gardasil shots even though there is a chance I already have a strand of the virus. I haven't gone yet because like many of you, I am scared of something so new. The rumors of people dying and stuff scare me. But the more I did my research the more I have decided I should. So let's talk about this a second.

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