From Toad to Harvard Beauty My Parents Regret

My Oscar dad and Grammy mom saw me as an ugly, unwanted daughter, called me Toad, and sent me to live with Grandma Maggie. 18 years later, I got into Harvard and returned home wearing a mask. Dad frowned and asked if I was hiding my ugly face. Mom laughed, saying I'd look even worse next to pretty Sienna. Sienna took my hand, calling beauty a burden and me blessed to be ugly. My hand paused. Grandma wrote every month—I got prettier daily, boys flocked around me, and she sent them pictures. My parents never opened a single one and never knew what I had become.