What I Learned About Online Dating With A Disfigurement
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I was born with a cleft lip and palate: it’s a common facial disfigurement affecting one in 700 people. With medical treatment (in my case, eight operations to rebuild my face, and three years of orthodontic treatment), people born with a cleft lip go on to live perfectly ‘normal’ lives. As far as disfigurements go, mine is so far from serious that I often forget there was ever anything ‘wrong’ with me at all. (Years of therapy have probably helped on that front, too.)
