“Operation Beautiful changed my life. One day I made about 100 little slips of paper that said “Hey you, yeah you. You’re absolutely beautiful. Don’t forget it,” and posted them in the bathrooms of my school. About an hour later, I found a girl sitting on the floor in a bathroom crying and holding one of the papers I had made. I asked her what was wrong and she said she’d never been called beautiful in her life. She couldn’t stop smiling. It made me feel incredible and now I do it about three times a year. My school keeps trying to figure out who did it to give them this award they give out, but I never tell them it’s me because I like that I’m a stranger, telling other girls I don’t even know that i love them and they’re beautiful.”

- Maddie

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