Just Make Him Beautiful (46 page)

*

“Camira, you’re on in one minute
,
g
i
rl
!
Y
ou betta hurry up!” I heard Akasha yelling down the stairs at me.

I yelled back,
“Ok
ay
already
.
”

Well
,
h
onies, as they say, the show must go on. You know, I was going to lip
-
synch
Vanessa Bell
Armstrong
’s “Congratulations
,
” but so much ha
d
changed between Sean and me that to show him I still care in my own way and
that
I can still laugh about what we had, I changed the song to
Beyonc
e
’s “
Single Ladies
.
”

Hopefully, he will get the irony of that.
It’s funny, I joined the military hoping it would make me more of a man, when in fact
,
it seemed to do the complete opposite,
c
hile boo.
Anyway,
as I was about to get up, I took a real hard look at myself in the mirror and I realized how beautiful
I was as a woman
,
and then it finally hit me
.
I had an epiphany. All the years I had been praying to God
to
“Just Make Him Beautiful
,
” I realized
H
e already had.

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