At 14, Leila could barely look at herself in the mirror.
She was the girl who always wore oversized hoodies to hide her frame, the one who faked sick notes to escape PE, the one who prayed for invisibility in crowded hallways. Life at school wasn’t cruel in the way of sharp insults or fist fights—but the silence, the looks, the constant pressure to be “enough”…
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