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When I was 10 years old, I would look at the girls that the other kids said were pretty and perfect: they were skinny and they had perfect skin. Then I would come home from school and look at myself in the mirror, and wonder why I didn't look like that. I thought it was because I had scars that made me different.
My mom quit her job to look after me. I was in hospital for three months and I had 11 surgeries, where the doctors and nurses had to take off the top layer of my skin, with its dead tissue, so the cells underneath could heal. On the day of the surgery, the nurses washed me and checked my head closely. They noticed that there were follicles starting to open, just the tiniest bit, on my scalp—like when you shave your legs and you see the little black dot in the follicle. That's what they saw.
They didn't need to do that surgery on my head anymore because my hair was growing back. My mom kept saying,"It's a miracle." And the surgeon, who was an atheist, apparently said,"It's not a miracle," but they couldn't come up with an explanation for how my hair was growing back., who told her that the atheist surgeon completely converted after I left the hospital. He decided to go to church and now he's apparently a Christian.