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Angie: Someone Worth Knowing
If you know me at all, you know that I value truth and beauty found in the whole picture — good, bad, and ugly. None of us are flawless Christs.
True beauty isn’t found in polished people who present themselves as having everything altogether. In fact, people like that bore me to death. There is nothing so delightful to me than to see the beauty and worth of someone who is so obviously flawed and easy to dismiss or disregard.
And Angie was beautiful to me.
I tied my waitress apron around my waist, I was training the ‘new girl’ that night. Before I had a chance to meet her, I was bombarded by judgments about her from coworkers (and later I’d hear that some customers thought the same).
Wide eyed, I was told, “I think she’s on coke. She’s twitchy and has weird, chaotic energy.” As is my habit, I listened attentively to them. When someone wants my ear, I give it, but rarely do I internalize and make someone else’s judgments my own. I reserve judgment and just allow myself to be a safe place for vulnerability and venting.
They weren’t wrong about her characteristics. She was twitchy and her energy was chaotic. My first impressions of this painfully thin woman were that she’d lived a hard life and true to her sign, Aries, she was aggressively and boldly herself. She had bumpy and sometimes awkward…
