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.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGzvSopfLv
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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. 827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDtmZZGPhQ
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32tacXKNbi
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEH5j23MjF
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.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOnjbrGukV
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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. 827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkbPehC1GS
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.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJpkWOOV5J
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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. 827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHJNkREpKg
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. 827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuPzynQQKA
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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.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIa9Iy8mDn
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She looks.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZXrKDTS2i
The twinkle of her youth is gone.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RDb8AhFhV
Dull and faded.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4Wvr8jf3R
Filled with bitterness and anger.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMrONHhMjy
A sharpness that could shatter glass.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqeMxDF522j
Then reality strikes.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoTMbEm8vZ
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJSNfqswQc
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKnR8SLHVd
She's been the fake all along.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDfftszfPi
She looks in mirrors no more.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViuIiCgh67
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