Collective Voice: Scars can be beautiful

Grade 9 students in the Collective Voice program at Aden Bowman Collegiate share their lives and opinions through columns. Selected columns run each Monday in The Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
 
Every morning when I look in the mirror, the scar above my eyebrow reminds me of my biggest childhood scare.
When I was about seven years old I went to a doctor’s appointment that could have changed the course of my life. I was born with a large birthmark on my forehead that my doctor thought was the