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    No more hiding ‘I LOVE MY SCARS’

    Feb 14, 2021 3 minutes
    Fleur Guthrie

    After enduring childhood taunts for being “ugly” and cruelly nicknamed “bulldog” by classmates for having a flat nose, Fleur Wickes grew into a teenager who would hide her face when talking to boys.

    Born with a full cleft lip and palate – and needing numerous operations to reconstruct her nose and lips – she quietly took on her own brutal self-critique.

    But at 20, Fleur didn’t want to do that any more and made a decision to look in the mirror every day for

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