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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobEIulddYS
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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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtmcaOFHsB
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAkRTPgzEO
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZp7t5ebhR8
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBKhuYjDhw
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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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5y34TheG0G
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtLIYhKtbr
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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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDqRDIL3Hn
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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpE3K4dmUL
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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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6HMctK0nQ
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She looks.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLW2Cb00LF
The twinkle of her youth is gone.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuX2STutHUT
Dull and faded.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaCLhphfJe
Filled with bitterness and anger.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniibUyWnEJ
A sharpness that could shatter glass.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTdc8YrDP3
Then reality strikes.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQK165GVvy
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AzWqTRrEl
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAvKxxx0mb
She's been the fake all along.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHMoUSecra
She looks in mirrors no more.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxNKXmXrbZg
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