Sally Sanders never much cared for looking in the mirror. It wasn’t that her face was too asymmetrical or her body was padded in all the wrong places. It wasn’t even a bad haircut or a horrifying encounter with a permanent marker.

No, Sally Sanders never much cared for looking in the mirror because it was never a surprise. Sally Sanders never gained one ounce or grew one inch. Every six weeks, her straight brown hair was trimmed in exactly the same way, and that’s exactly what Sally Sanders always was: exactly the same.

Sally Sanders did not bat a single perfectly boring eyelash the day she did look in the mirror. Most people probably would have done much more than that, if they spied a strange man in the corner of their bathroom mirror, but not Sally Sanders. For all she knew, that man always resided in her mirror, and it would be quite rude of her to disturb him.