A Case of the Human Condition: My Daughter the Trash Heap

Christina Newhall Halloween vampire. Photo by Barbara Falconer Newhall

Christina at 15, a howling vampire. Photos by BF Newhall

By Barbara Falconer Newhall

My daughter is beautiful. She was born beautiful. But I sometimes wonder if she really wants to be.

If she liked being beautiful, then why the heck would she dress up as a skeleton for Halloween when she was 6 years old? As a warlock at age 8? As a heap of trash at 11?

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