Do You Like Me? by Suzanne Schlosberg

I'm a slob and a serial plant killer. But in the likeability department, I've always considered myself to be pretty top-notch. My mom and dad like me. My dry-cleaning guy likes me (he gives me Tootsie Rolls). My fourth-grade teacher, Miss Thompson, liked me a lot - enough to award me the class citizenship trophy. My husband likes me, except when I leave dirty, wet sponges in the sink or forget to water the ficus. But am I as likeable as I could be? This, apparently, is no small matter.

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Originally appeared in September 2005 in Health.
Used with permission of the author.

This month we feature the beautiful work of Vancouver-based Leanne Pedersen, specializing in portraits, wedding and fashion photography. Her images capture the mood and personality of her subjects in a way that is haunting, graceful and elegant. Her wedding imagery is romantic, timeless and well-crafted, her artistic eye always in evidence.

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You are so beautiful...to me! Come celebrate the human connections that make life worth living. After all, what else is there? It's easy these days to forget what's really valuable, but we can see it here - it's in the faces of lovers, babies, friends, daughters, mothers.

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