I'd given up trying to solve this decorating conundrum when, on a recent trip to India Jane, an affordable furniture shop in London, I spotted a silver-framed, three-sided stand-up mirror.

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If he did so as a child, his mother would make him stand in front of a mirror to see who the negativity actually reflected on.

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As the cameras go about their business, you wonder what happened to the man whose bowler hat still rests where he left it or the socialite who admired her reflection in the mirror of a now-decayed wash stand.

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Nancy remembers when the baby fussed, she'd stand with her in front of a mirror.

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Then he'd have the person stand in front of a two-way mirror looking into the room where a friend of theirs was holding a snake.

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In the front hall, on the back of the front door, I hung a mirror framed in a dark wood that matched the color of the umbrella stand.

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We live in that world so much these days that it takes an effort to stand back and think once in awhile about what we see in that mirror, and more importantly, what it means.

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The woman whom the noise of the Dodge always brought out stared stonily, continuing to stand there when the car went on, a still image in the rearview mirror.

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In this new battleground in the cultural wars of the Muslim world, a distant mirror of the religious wars that shook Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, Malian musicians are taking a stand.

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