#40: Cousin in Áo dài – Part III – What happened with beauty?

#40: Cousin in Áo dài – Part III – What happened with beauty?

Posted: May 22, 2009 
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Phuong is my uncle’s daughter. By the time I took this set about a year ago, she was just 17.  There is a whole long story about her. My uncle used to live in the rural area where my grandfather is now living. Until then, he got a job as a driver for my father’s office so he took Phuong to the city living with my family. I remembered the first time she arrived at my house; very tiny, dark and skinny, she was just 9 or 10. Then she’d lived with me ever since.

As she has been growing up, people started to recognize her beauty, she had been changed gradually, more beautiful every year. She has a perfect beautiful face: big eyes, straight nose,  nice lips and two dimples on her cheeks, just a bit skinny . Later on, her mother and little sister came living with my family too. Things got complicated, as her mother – a not high-educated person, always thought of her daughter as a very beautiful person (as she heard people praised) so she cared too much about her daughter’s appearance : clothes, make up from a very early age,…..and the truth is, the girl is getting more and more pretty that she started attracting young rich boys and….men, and she….started to lie and care too much about her beauty which she should not do at her age. Phuong is still just a little girl and somehow she and her mother could not handle her beauty properly – they just came to the city and got lost in this complicated environment. Phuong hang out with bad students, rich ones, she sneaked out of school and quit classes every time she could. No comments were listenable to her parents! In fact, they started to realize the problems themselves! If they don’t know how to control her properly, she’s going bad, especially when more greedy men and boys started paying attention over her! SHE IS JUST 17!!!

Well, I tried to help, but…I’m not her parents though!

Then I learnt that this problem happens to every family who has teenage girls and boys, not even “beautiful” ones, but it is headachable as this phase. Even my parents had had hard time with me when I was at this age – but luckily, I was not….a beautiful one, so boyfriend was not the family’s concern.

But still, I’m proud that I have a beautiful cousin (actually, I have several), well, and hopefully she will be fine when she’s really growing up!

Haizz, it’s life, isn’t it?  It is great to be beautiful, but sometimes, it is not if you don’t know how to control it!!!!

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