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Walking towards me is a spectacular looking young woman on crutches. It's plain she's in a great deal of pain. Her face twitches, tightens, then relaxes with every step she takes. I find myself staring at her more because I never think of beautiful people in great pain. Only mortals feel pain-- or embarrassment, confusion or sadness. Although of course beauties do-- just not out here in plain view. However people this gorgeous aren't really mortal for the few seconds we usually see them breeze by us, floating an inch or two off the ground on their small clouds of wonderfulness. Not today though. No matter how stunning, this woman with her grimaces and tiny pained steps is very much one of us.
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the astonishing work of the artist Ron Mueck:
http://bit.ly/AN29N