...and a port-wine stain

March 11, 2004 - 10:29 p.m.

To my Online Lover,

So we are finally meeting. I hope you're not disappointed. I should probably come clean now and tell you that being a photographer, some of my photos may have been retouched, and therefore may be misleading. It is not difficult to crop prosthetic limbs out of pictures.

I hope you’ll be able to refrain from commenting on my numerous physical deformities, as well as my mental birth defect. It would mean the world to me if you would choose to look past the wooden leg, glass eye, wig, and hook arm. I think that you are a decent person and can look at the person INSIDE and forget about the fact that I need a chinstrap to hold my hair on. I mean, my one eye is good, I can drive and everything, and the glass one is easily removable at night. Maybe someday I’ll feel comfortable enough to take it out when you stay over. I just put it in a pickle jar on my nightstand, it allows for better sleep.

‘Til Tuesday,
Shawna

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