Cleft Lip / Palate Support Group
Cleft is a congenital deformity caused by a failure in facial development during gestation. It can be treated with surgery shortly after birth with highly successful results. Cleft occurs in somewhere between one in 600 and one in 800 births. Cleft occurs in several severities and is divided in two major categories: cleft lip and cleft palate.
I was just reading in this book about facial differences called Eye Of The Beholder, which is pretty good so far itself, about a motivational speaker with a facial tumor named David Roche, so I googled him and found his homepage at www.davidroche.com. I haven't delved into it much, but at first glance it looks extremely entertaining and uplifting. Wonder how I haven't heard of this guy yet. And why there's no Wikipedia article on him yet. Enjoy!
Here's the link if you want to watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzm_pTghRsk
David Roche seems very interesting and inspiring. I don't know where I would get the book though.
I actually ordered Eye Of The Beholder (the book) through Amazon. When I'm done with I might well get the E-version of Mr. Roche's book, "The Church of 80% Sincerity." You can download a Kindle app to read e-books even if you don't have a reader, pretty convenient.
@ojgornall: I am a pretty big fan of the twilight zone. I remember seeing that episode when I was very young and it blew my 8 year old mind!
I also choose to believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.