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How do you define beauty? Supermodels? Celebrities? Actually, a different question for you. What defines you? Lizzie Velasquez was born with a rare condition that keeps her from gaining any weight. She’s also blind in her right eye. When Lizzie was just a teen, she was the subject of an online video that described her…

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