"I know looks shouldn't matter, but I'm glad they do."

-T shirt, worn by a little girl at my work

You're Beautiful.

Some volunteers came to do a decorate-your-own-box craft with our girls. When they were finished, all the volunteers wrote personal notes to each girl and put them in their boxes.

At the end of the night, we read the notes, and half of them had the same wording: "You are beautiful inside and out."

At first I thought the sameness made it less personal. But then I realized, beauty might be the core of every girl.