MONIROSE SOUL

MONIROSE SOUL

When the Mirror Looks Like Your Mother

You are allowed to reclaim your reflection.

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Monica Hebert
May 17, 2025
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She looked in the mirror and saw her mother’s hair on her own head—and felt a shock of grief and resistance.

Not because her mother had passed. But because her mother was never kind.

So she cut her hair. Changed her style. Avoided mirrors. And when others told her she looked just like the woman who raised her, it stung. Because her mother wasn’t someone s…

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