Beauty For Ashes

London Maxwell has kept a mental list for nearly thirty years. She refers to it as the list of why she feels fat and inadequate, an unhealthy list to be sure. This list became one of the building blocks that formed the person London Abernathy Maxwell grew up to be. Other foundational building blocks included all of the unkind appraisals from others she refused to forget over the years, unrealistic expectations of a culture obsessed with youth and unattainable ideals of beauty, and her own c...