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ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

For faith and much more, women choose to keep covered

Choclit' Angel Handley, a 27-year-old convert to Islam, struggled with a positive self-image before covering. Before, people could say her hair wasn't straight enough or her waist not small enough, she says. But the covering "allows me to build self-confidence from within."