shewasavisitor

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The inner circle faced the outer circle.
Silently, in eleven-second intervals, the inner circle rotated to the right one person. Each new person was gazed upon and assessed. The exercise was meant for us to recognise patterns, insecurities, shortcomings:

What can this person teach me?
This person will break my heart.
What is this stranger thinking about when they look at me?

I struggle with finding myself beautiful. And eleven seconds of a particular face stood out: I was intimidated by it. Later, that particular face approached me! We exchanged phone numbers. And now we are friends. Ricarda is a mirror?

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29 days of self-portraits in the advent of Leap Day