My Toes are Disgusting

Caroline McEvoy
5 min readMay 23, 2020

My toes are disgusting. I’m ashamed just to look. They’re calloused and crooked. Their cuticles are uncut. The big ones are hairy. Hairy! I know when we grow up we start getting hair in unexpected places, but on our toes? Really? Come on.

I didn’t always think my toes were disgusting. When I was two years old, I broke my big toe on my right foot. It’s one of my earliest memories- it was flattened by a falling weight and…

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