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.897Please respect copyright.PENANAPS8xziUC3v
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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. 897Please respect copyright.PENANATVv9BnqF9p
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.897Please respect copyright.PENANAOHQsno9ZMF
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 897Please respect copyright.PENANAqDKIlzXGeX
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.897Please respect copyright.PENANAjCEQSdvmvg
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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. 897Please respect copyright.PENANAxbkGxa2vx4
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.897Please respect copyright.PENANAiibQSTbOiE
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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. 897Please respect copyright.PENANAwN9z7bNETz
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. 897Please respect copyright.PENANA8wpoq408G4
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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.897Please respect copyright.PENANAVuERWTk9UR
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She looks.897Please respect copyright.PENANAeU8akaAHgk
The twinkle of her youth is gone.897Please respect copyright.PENANA1gYEGptqXx
Dull and faded.897Please respect copyright.PENANAdp3WVyZ3Nu
Filled with bitterness and anger.897Please respect copyright.PENANARiSPLO3StZ
A sharpness that could shatter glass.897Please respect copyright.PENANADkI73gp4ff
Then reality strikes.897Please respect copyright.PENANAdxq4a9gw23
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.897Please respect copyright.PENANAKx74YAAgVs
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.897Please respect copyright.PENANAyXQd7vCkVo
She's been the fake all along.897Please respect copyright.PENANAqDOejAAbNH
She looks in mirrors no more.897Please respect copyright.PENANA6drU5nxyUx
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