While grounded in place and time, these three images with texts, “My life is awful; “You are ugly, fat, and stupid, no one loves you”; “Everyone has a boyfriend while you are all alone”, seem universal and applicable to any young girl entering puberty who gazes into mirrors to share their secrets.

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