Another morning, Lale asks a Nyagatom woman to remove her Western-style top so we can photograph her artful scars.

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She had never believed anyone would ever want her because of the ugly patchwork of scars that banded across her back and pitted her arm, but Bui Huy Toan seemed to love her more because of them.

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One day, not long after she had endured yet another session under the surgeon's knife, he took a mirror from her dressing table and thrust it in front of her face to reflect the livid scars and the bruising under her eyes.

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Delia Balmer survived the 1994 attack for which Sweeney was originally jailed, but she lost a finger and suffered scars to her chest and head, as well as psychological damage.

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Despite her injury and the mental scars that went with it, she plunged back into the fray, covering countless wars and upheavals all over the Middle East and elsewhere.

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Georgia has a broken tail, and her legs and snout are covered with scars.

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They tucked the scars around Culp's ears or underneath her eyelid, where they would not be visible.

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The rail-thin Thomassin, all angles and scars and wounded bravado behind his scruffy mustache, and Beaugrand, a tall, pale beauty who hunches her shoulders and bows her head and peers out from beneath her brow through a floppy lock of hair, energetically tangle and trade etched phrases and aggressive silences in fluid long takes that seem composed of a series of sculptural tableaux.

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