We are all special and unique in our own ways, as is each of our own particular beauty. That ‘beauty comes from within’ is more than mere sentimental cliché: the tone and texture of our skin reflects our inner health; pays visible testament to any inner stress and tension, hormonal dysfunction, or nutritional deficiencies. 
Skin is the body’s largest organ: it ostensibly shields us from pollutants …

Pumpkins and Jack O’ Lanterns. 
Oh!—fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days recalling,
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling!
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!
John Greenleaf Whittier, ‘The Pumpkin’ (1850)
 
Many in Britain and worldwide lay wreaths on the graves of loved ones in the grim knowledge that they were snatched from them by the terrible …