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Nailed It!

After a salon turns away

a physically challenged

woman, a stranger makes

a truly beautiful gesture

By Andy Simmons

“Beauty isn’t about having a pretty
face,” begins a motivational quote. “It’s
about having a pretty mind, a pretty
heart, and a pretty soul. Oh, and pretty
nails!”
That may well be Angela Peters’s
motto. Last July, Peters, 36, rolled her
wheelchair into a nail salon located
at the Walmart shopping center in
Burton, Michigan, with the idea of be-
dazzling her fingers. But Peters, who
has cerebral palsy, was turned away.
The salon (which is not owned by
Walmart), she says, told her that they
were afraid it would be too difficult to
properly paint her nails given that her
hands shook. What was meant to be a