"Looking pretty, looking beautiful, in a disaster zone might be one more way of exclaiming to the world that you are doing more than breathing, that you are surviving, that you matter."
Edwidge Danticat
--excerpt from A Place Of Refuge, an essay in Allure's March 2011 issue, about the redemptive power of beauty for some women in Haiti, when poverty and devastation threatens their basic humanity.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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