I have grown accustomed to my face and so have my family and friends. If it does not have in it the power of certain rare faces to rejoice the hearts of all who behold it, under the right circumstances it can moderately rejoice two or three selected faces. It also, as far as I know, causes no one anywhere to be afraid or to despair. I see things in my face that I wish were not there. I see things in my face that I am content to see there. There are times when I see it almost as a stranger's face. But all in all, it is a face that has served me well enough over the years and that I can live with.
-Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace, 26.
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