This is a story to inspire you to reach for your dreams. Many years ago a friend of mine came a close 2nd in the Miss Brazil competition. Later that year she emigrated and was beset by a long period of bad luck. She suffered years of drug and alcohol abuse and a series of eating disorders. She lost a leg and needed facial reconstruction surgery after a road traffic accident. Later, she suffered 90% burns in an unprovoked acid attack. Several of her teeth were knocked out and an eye gouged in a bitch fight outside a Macdonalds. The stress caused severe hair loss and facial warts. But she never stopped believing. And then finally last week she was crowned Miss Swansea 2013.
