4 reasons people try to take away your beauty (and why you shouldn’t let them). [What I wish I knew when I was 18]

Sitting cross-legged on a twin bed, giggling about cute boys while the summer evening breeze swirled around us — it had been a long time — a lifetime — since the last time I’d done this. Yet there I was on the eve of my baby sister’s graduation (am I allowed to still call her …