As an adolescent in the ‘90s, I spent untold hours in front of the mirror of my bedroom closet: pruning my eyebrows pencil-thin, testing out new Wet n’ Wild colors from the drugstore, and pouting my lips for an imagined camera. Looking back, I wish I’d done something — anything — more useful with my time, but I wasn’t the only one feeling the pull of their own reflection.
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