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.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpkd5e2UY0
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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. 841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLzBtQXoG4
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ljNnUlK52
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YnmP5WeG4
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.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsUOqEeCLN
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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. 841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQcobMUcfd
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.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOkxKYZQ2X
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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. 841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5WFMqw238w
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. 841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDACN098S40
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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.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPu41JHjB4k
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She looks.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyh4ighxHFo
The twinkle of her youth is gone.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikuJbat2r0
Dull and faded.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvV5hvIPWkC
Filled with bitterness and anger.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquYKBrcmMY
A sharpness that could shatter glass.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3p54Le9W4l
Then reality strikes.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dHdOyra1Z
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1cttIE45t
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAz8snYeKUA
She's been the fake all along.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftelA9DGE3
She looks in mirrors no more.841Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMLhEQLA6m
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