‘Girl’ finally wears a smile – not a mask


PETALING JAYA: At just 15, child burn survivor Elizabeth Elida Edward has seen moments so dark and terrible that most people could probably not even imagine them.

She was only two when a cruel fire left her disfigured and crippled, but she was too young then to remember the tragedy that also claimed the lives of her two older siblings 13 years ago.

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