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Loving beautiful things is both lazy and obvious. Of course everyone adores flowers and sunsets and butterfly migrations. Yawn me a river. Real, wholehearted love comes only after confronting a subject’s crusty, clubfooted, circus-freak-with-a-belly-button-infection flaws and embracing it anyway.

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Former Stranger news writer Cienna Madrid has been a writer in residence for Richard Hugo House, a local literary nonprofit. There, she taught fiction classes and wrote 4/5 of a book about a death-row...