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.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Kia0wooMa
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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. 938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7HB5D1yjJ
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNFQl4mTLn
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZjWNBYDUz
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.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViQsyurNHJ
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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. 938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8DM9evBhh
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.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41UjM9tJH0
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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. 938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYk3xVqx0B
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. 938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucoRS4iIAH
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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.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbBadEoHd6
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She looks.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynLN7b9nrB
The twinkle of her youth is gone.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiodD5vLkjV
Dull and faded.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQhs7E04hv
Filled with bitterness and anger.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5gC6WTNeI
A sharpness that could shatter glass.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDazm8Gu7G
Then reality strikes.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVUG26B3Ag
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJ4phgSMzc
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4yKrbYrH7
She's been the fake all along.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7V9ggXP92
She looks in mirrors no more.938Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWInqFwqyDO
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