In the small, sunlit kitchen of their cozy home, nine-year-old Amara sat at the table, flipping through the pages of a magazine. Her fingers hesitated over a striking advertisement featuring a model with flowing hair and bright blue eyes, an image of beauty that seemed to saturate the pages of every publication she’d ever seen. Amara’s brow furrowed as she studied the glossy photos.
Her mother, Sarah, was stirring a pot on the stove, the