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It took Shay till the night that she was leaving Ugliyvile and the rest of the this place that she finally put her finger on why or more over how she was still crushing on Tally even though she was not a true beauty nor even a classic beauty.
The idea and the concept is so shockingly simple that Shay would never had thought about it until this point was an attest to how pretties changed the way that we view beauty.
Shay liked Tally in the way that was not made from destroying a person body and making them in to what you think is the ideal beauty standard all should obtain. Not in the way that abused the idea of biology but in the way that it was truly ment to be.
A the thing that always made Shay so uncomfortable with pretties to begin with it is because it just made everyone to the same. Made everyone prefect to fill in the gaps their biology could not get to when in biology not everyone was supposed to be made like that.
But it would always get in the way of Shay thinking that everyone is beautiful and deserves to feel that way. That is why when reading history she attached to the idea of the a true beauty as she dubbed it.
It was not that though.
Tally was pretty because she was Tally. She feel for her personality not her beauty. It made sense. This was the real genuien liking that David and others like him and Shay would talk to about. Nothing made, nothing forced, just yourself as it is.
Leaving the intstrtion Shay cannot help but hope to all things above that Tally would fallow. Because being able to experience this showed her the truth of it all and gave her all the more reason to run.