Reader Submission
Some changes don’t show up right away.
They appear later, in small moments you don’t expect—like standing in front of a camera.
This reader didn’t write to us after her haircut.
She wrote weeks later, after she noticed something she had done differently without thinking.
This is her story. Lightly edited, shared with permission.
I didn’t realize how much I avoided cameras until I stopped doing it.
For most of my life, photos made me nervous.
Not in a dramatic way. Just enough to make me lower my head, tilt my face, or step slightly out of the frame.
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