Beautiful Child: The True Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her, by Torey Hayden.

At the end of the epilogue, my nighttime skincare routine was invalid. Tears everywhere.

This was just… one of my favorite books of all time. The sensitivity of children’s welfare is something that aches the best part of my heart, and this book brought the importance of that out of its pages.

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