You can see it on so many cars all over California. The city of Palm Springs is proud of that bumper sticker. It is the shiny yellow bumper sticker I have pasted to the top of the middle mirror. The most important part of this little table is not the creamy whiteness of the smooth top, not the cascades of carefully handmade ruffles, not even the three revealing mirrors. For sixteen years, I’ve watched myself grow up in those mirrors and sometimes when I peer intently into them, I can swear I not only see the outside of me, but the inside as well the soul of me that no one can see - but me. I made the skirt a long time ago, all by hand, long before my mother bought our sewing machine that does everything.Īttached to the vanity are three mirrors hinged together and when tipped a certain way, I can see three of myself from three different angles. In one corner of my room there stands a creamy white-topped vanity table, dressed in yellow and white ruffles of organdy. It felt warm and strong and I had the funny feeling that as long as I held onto his hand, I would never fall.”īarbara and Connie, who were first to really know Mariah When he helped me climb his rock, he held his hand out to me and I took it. That night I wrote in my notebook: “When we stand together, my head just comes up to his shoulders.
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