It was a nerve-racking and emotional time for me - arriving at the games to suddenly be faced with the reality of meeting my mirror image - but it wasn't how I imagined it to be when I came face to face with people with my condition.
As we all know, the Queen is hung up on what her mirror tells her about getting old -- she can't bear being eclipsed in the beauty stakes by her stepdaughter Snow (Lily Collins, Phil's daughter).
It got me thinking: Why not assemble a stripped-down, tomboy vanity by pairing this mirror with a low-key desk or dressing table a solution that wouldn't flood our bedroom with estrogen?
It can be a rather humbling process and it can spring some unwelcome surprises - I catch a sidelong glimpse of myself in the mirror, and I don't see me but my mum.
The math professor who came up with the "wide angle substantially nondistorting mirror" says it works kind of like a mirrored disco ball -- although it doesn't look anything like one.