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• The Magic Mirror Aug 17, 2025

  

  There was once a mirror, old as a story told by a grandmother, which did not simply show how one looked but how one lived. It hung in a trader’s stall and waited for the curious. People came to see themselves and left with questions.

  Kwaku, a youth with bright shoes and quick jokes, loved the mirror for how it made him look the part of a man grown. He would preen and make faces, expecting praise. But the mirror gave him another view: of him sitting alone by a full basket yet never sharing, of his laughter that cut others and left them thin.