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I FEEL PRETTY!

IT DOESN’T matter what she looks like on the outside – it’s what’s on the inside that matters.

This is what her mom instilled in her from an early age and it’s worked miracles. It doesn’t bother the 12-year-old that her nose is misshapen, her eyes are set wide apart and that she has six toes on her right foot.

“When I look at myself in the mirror, I look pretty,” Stephanie Deysel says.

The youngster, who lives in Viljoenskroon in the Free State, was six months old when she was diagnosed with

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