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  • Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
  • Theme: Love stories / Romance
  • Subject: Adventure
  • Published: 08/27/2011

Jenny's Mirror

By Dorsey Baker
Born 1949, M, from NLR /Arkansas, United States
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There is this mirror standing by the front door. It was Jenny's front door and it was Jenny's mirror. Every morning before she left her house, she'd stop and check herself out in her mirror. If the reflection in the mirror was what she wanted the world to see, she would open the front door and walk out upon the world; but if the reflection she saw in the mirror was not the reflection she wanted to present to the world, she'd go back and work on it some more. She sought perfection in her appearance! If the mirror reflection said she was beautiful that day, then that day she was beautiful, if the reflection did not, then she was not! She trusted in the mirror and its reflection; because it was the reflection in the mirror that gave her her courage! It was that reflection that she depended upon. She trusted her mirror more than she trusted anyone or any other thing! Jenny was her beautiful made up face! Jenny was the beautiful clothes that made her look the way she looked! Really Jenny was just a reflection in a mirror. Just a reflection! Because the mirror was her judge; Jenny was what the mirror said she was!

Jenny's Mirror(Dorsey Baker) There is this mirror standing by the front door. It was Jenny's front door and it was Jenny's mirror. Every morning before she left her house, she'd stop and check herself out in her mirror. If the reflection in the mirror was what she wanted the world to see, she would open the front door and walk out upon the world; but if the reflection she saw in the mirror was not the reflection she wanted to present to the world, she'd go back and work on it some more. She sought perfection in her appearance! If the mirror reflection said she was beautiful that day, then that day she was beautiful, if the reflection did not, then she was not! She trusted in the mirror and its reflection; because it was the reflection in the mirror that gave her her courage! It was that reflection that she depended upon. She trusted her mirror more than she trusted anyone or any other thing! Jenny was her beautiful made up face! Jenny was the beautiful clothes that made her look the way she looked! Really Jenny was just a reflection in a mirror. Just a reflection! Because the mirror was her judge; Jenny was what the mirror said she was!

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