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Into thy Glass

Looking

She slid into the mirror. She thought as she completed the last

thinksit every time. Into the few strokes to get herself to the

looking glass. Perfect diving wall. She pulled herself up and

perfection. There's a pause out of the shallow end and tried

before entry. You stand there to decide whether or not she

taklIng careful inventory of you' r- should do a shallow skimming
self from the dispro- dive to make her

portionately large "Her confidence way back towards

feet up and then it failed. She was mid- the diving board.
happens so fast in a
white hot rushof She decided to

dive and tried to pull go for it. Into the

motion. Bendspring- up before she real- looking glass.
tuckstraight. Into the Perfect.
looking glass. ized she had done it
wrong. She bashed But instead of the
When she swims
pause of inventory
shetakes off her and the rapid fire
rings. It started when
her nose full force into sequenceshe made
a mistake. Her con-
she was just a young the bottom of the fidence failed. She

whippersnapper with poo I..." was mid-dive and
those shiny plastic tried to pull up be-

flowery things that ___________ fore she realized she

would fade and had done it wrong. She bashed
crack in the water. She kept on her nose full force into the
with it when she got older and bottom of the pool and scraped
still couldn't get nice jewelry and
didn't want anyone to see it turn her lips.
green. Now she couldn't stand to For a moment her head was

have the stuff on in the pool. full of the sound of water and
Nobody's married down here I heartbeats and blood rushing
guess, she joked to herself. around in her head. Shethought
Nobody's having babies. of a sonogram. Nobody's having

Not that you need to be babies.
married to have babies, she It was so bad that she was

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