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" I liked to hang around my mom's beauty salon, watching her do hair. "

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" A journalist in Toronto named Shannon Boodram saw my Facebook page and told me I was 'strikingly beautiful.' She shot a YouTube video of me, and it made a hit, grabbing thousands of views. She said the camera loved me and that I should be a model. I had never thought about modeling - it just hadn't seemed possible. "

" It's weird to me for people to stare at me, because I feel like I'm normal. I don't see what there is to stare about. "

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