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Vanity Purge

to look in the mirror, I didn’t see my reflection staring back at me. Instead, I saw a catalog filled with men who were the archetype of physical male perfection. Then I would subtract my image from the s u m o f t h e s e p e r f e c t specimens and find the remainder of what stood between myself and the way I felt I was

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