main character - by Elaine - manners & mystery
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in defense of selfies and celebrating your life
Frank Dicksee, The Mirror, 1896 There was a time I judged people for taking solo selfies, especially the ones where they’re standing in front of a bathroom mirror to get their body in the frame and subsequently capture the phone in the picture too. You have to admit there is something funny about taking a selfie in front of a mirror. The symbolism is rife: the double focus on appearance, unabashedly capturing the act within the act, the blatant display of millennial egotism. Maybe because I am a millennial, I held a particularly harsh view of my generation. (Despite taking an abundance of…
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