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How Lizzie Velasquez Found Her Dream Life

Boldly Me

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The Fear of Starting School

"I owe the absence of fear going into school to my parents," she says. "In one world I was Lizzie and I was, you know, normal and just like the people I was around." Her mother babysat from our home but never hid her away or covered her with a blanket. She had no idea that other kids were afraid of her until they saw her at school.

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