Just about an hour ago, I decided to go to the book store in San Patricio Plaza over here in P.R. and I encountered an activity going on there. As I struggle to walk in to ask about a book I need to buy for a class in the university, I see a girl speaking and all eyes are on her. It was pretty obvious she’s well known since people were amazed by her. Therefore from my part, I’ve never seen this girl in my life. This young girl’s name is Lola Montilla. She wrote a little booklet called “Beautiful Scars”. She stated in the beginning of her booklet that she wrote it in both English and Spanish. Here’s what the booklet looks like:

Photo by: Veronica Ballester

Photo by: Veronica Ballester

The thing is these types of events don’t really matter to me, of course it depends, but this one happened to have caught my attention today. How? When I was witnessing everybody holding that booklet, I was looking around confused and my eyes came upon an open box filled with those booklets. I had to see what all the commotion was about so I picked it up and started reading through it. This is the part where it truly caught my attention. I saw that all her “selfies” were directly for the viewers to observe her scar. This right here, reminded me of my sister and grandfather because they both have scars exactly where she has it, but bigger. As you can see in the picture, the girl has a scar in the middle of her chest. This is what it says across her chest: FLAWLESS. As you can see, the “L” in that word is substituted by her scar. When you flip through the booklet, you will see in each picture it says different words on her chest containing her scar and a meaning behind the word. To see I’m not bluffing about my sister with the same scar, but bigger, here’s a picture:

Photo rights belong to: Monica Vazquez

Photo rights belong to: Monica Vazquez

The point of her writing this booklet is to show people to not be ashamed of their scars. To show that:

‘You can turn a scar into something beautiful.”