<正> grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. Iwas born with a cleft palate, and when I started schoolmy classmates made it clear to me how I must look toothers: a little girl with a misshapen lip, crooked nose,lopsided teeth and garbled speech. When schoolmates would ask, 'What happened toyour lip?' I’d tell them I’d fallen and cut it on a pieceof glass. Somehow it seeemed more acceptable to have