Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. If you've ever wanted something so badly and then gotten it, then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be. Poor people who win the lottery do not become rich people. They become poor people who won the lottery. She was a very beautiful person who was missing something very ugly. Her winnings were the absence of something, and this quality hung around her. There was so much potential in the imagined removal of the scars; any fool in the same room could play the game of guessing how good she would look without it. Now there was no game to play.
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