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Royal Rose |
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Fifteen year old Rose Connolly has been
groomed since birth to become the spokes-model for the most
successful cosmetics company in America. She will be the
fifth girl in her family to inherit this position, and she's
ready. Well, almost ready. Somehow, she has gained
an obscene amount of weight in the past three months,
turning her into a tomato on stilts. But this is temporary!
All she has to do is work hard, exercising and eating right,
and she will get her weight back to normal. Plain and
simple. So why can’t her parents, the press, and her
classmates accept this and
leave her alone?
Royal Rose
is a story about making the best of the cards that life has
dealt. Even if it means drawing a few from the deck. |
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To read an excerpt, click
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Inspiration |
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I was swimming laps at my gym one
afternoon, and there was an overweight woman getting ready
to swim in the lane next to mine. A mother and son walked by
on their way the other side of the pool. The son was about four
years old or so, and stared at the overweight woman. He
pointed and loudly asked "Mommy, why is that lady so fat?"
The overweight woman blushed
slightly, but seemed to be brushing it off. Then the mother
loudly answered her son "It's because she eats too much."
The overweight woman looked as if she'd been slapped across
the face. She picked up her towel and left - she didn't even
swim one lap.
I was appalled. That mother summed up a
complete stranger's life in one sentence. At the same
time, she taught her son that it's okay to be rude and
disrespect others. A four-year-old can't possibly know
he's not supposed to say such things, and it's a mother's
duty to teach him these things. She
should have told her son it was rude to say such things,
then apologized to the overweight woman. But she didn't.
Instead, she made no attempt to hide her scorn for someone
that doesn't fit into society's definition of beauty. In my opinion,
that mother was far uglier than the woman she'd
insulted. |
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