Youthful eyes, bright with wonder and amazement stare back at the two year old as she discovers mirrors for the first time. She's happy and giggly as she plays with her reflection.925Please respect copyright.PENANAsVqTzq1kmQ
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Once flawless skin has become covered in adolescent marks at the age of twelve. But she keeps looking in the mirror, seeing other parts of her that are still very pleasing. 925Please respect copyright.PENANADnylHzvAJ8
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.925Please respect copyright.PENANA08OBOI8BBk
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 925Please respect copyright.PENANAzWYA1bDJQy
She continues to look in mirrors, grasping on to her self-esteem while others try to put her down. She won't let anyone tell her that she's unattractive. She doesn't believe them.925Please respect copyright.PENANAWHk4IOjXgk
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Those were just some of the words she was called in High School at the age of seventeen. But in her mind, she's telling herself that she's beautiful, that what people say don't bug her. In reality, it's starting to get to her. 925Please respect copyright.PENANAISplhvKkKa
The constant noise of social media telling girls how they should look and act has become a virus; spreading from female to female. But she won't be like them. She won't give in to the false pretense of what beauty is.925Please respect copyright.PENANACyGw6vdqkV
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Twenty years old, she's living with some roommates; women who have their own independent thinking. They see the way she acts, the way she constantly looks in the mirror after classes. Hearing words she says to them, about how they're just like every other girl; fake. 925Please respect copyright.PENANAIyTHAajCnq
They ask why she thinks like that; why she thinks that every girl is fake. She speaks of experience. She says that looking in mirrors and seeing how she looks keep her from giving in to false beliefs of beauty. Mirrors are her friends. 925Please respect copyright.PENANA1XIiogR8YR
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Twenty-one years old, sitting in a psychologists office and telling her story. The man across from her hands over a handheld mirror and asks what she sees in her eyes.925Please respect copyright.PENANArkAQ41BYXY
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She looks.925Please respect copyright.PENANABPPGidU4wZ
The twinkle of her youth is gone.925Please respect copyright.PENANA2cJnSetGbZ
Dull and faded.925Please respect copyright.PENANAxSfbWNeGwV
Filled with bitterness and anger.925Please respect copyright.PENANALjAwbHQyjc
A sharpness that could shatter glass.925Please respect copyright.PENANADqBd4oEpaI
Then reality strikes.925Please respect copyright.PENANA348YShQj3S
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.925Please respect copyright.PENANAt3zRcA4np3
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.925Please respect copyright.PENANAR93rdPPk4T
She's been the fake all along.925Please respect copyright.PENANAROTLIlv4fI
She looks in mirrors no more.925Please respect copyright.PENANAIVAfzvtHFQ
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