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One day, I looked in the mirror and saw my parent staring back Was it the gray hair? A face more lined and wrinkled? Or, was it the sadness in my eyes? The anger in my furrowed brow? I stared harder. Had I grown into the hero? The villain? I blinked and my parent was gone
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Feb 26, 2017
Feb 26, 2017 at 3:14 AM UTC
Blink
One day, I looked in the mirror and saw my parent staring back Was it the gray hair? A face more lined and wrinkled? Or, was it the sadness in my eyes? The anger in my furrowed brow? I stared harder. Had I grown into the hero? The villain? I blinked and my parent was gone
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Feb 26, 2017
Feb 26, 2017 at 3:14 AM UTC
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