on my first birthday my father gifted me a hand mirror<\/p>\n
my mother kept it in my nursery<\/p>\n
and as I grew, it grew with me<\/p>\n
at five, it was hung on the wall across from my bed<\/p>\n
I saw my face as I slept<\/p>\n
at sixteen, I came home and found it cracked<\/p>\n
my mother tried to fix it with resin<\/p>\n
but it came out lumpy and distorted<\/p>\n
at twenty-three, I moved it into my first apartment<\/p>\n
I left the mirror with my parents, it had grown too large and fragile to move<\/p>\n
my father protested, my mother stayed silent<\/p>\n
at thirty, I found it in their basement while searching for long gone memories<\/p>\n
it had become a window, and through it I saw myself<\/p>\n
a baby, a child, a teenager, a woman, a person<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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