She made faces in the mirror because she loved to see how she could contort her eyebrows and squish her nose. She tried for five different ones every day. Scary, happy, excited, constipated, muppet-like, motherly, fuhrer-like, etc. One day, after years of playing different expressions across her face, it froze. Her eyes were stuck in half moon squints, her nose and mouth bunched up like a curious chipmunk, and eyebrows furrowed intensely.
She went to show her mother, who gasped in horror, dropped the clothes she had just bought for her lovely daughter, and fainted.
“Awesome!” she gasped.
woah. there's a kids book in aus called "when the wind changes" that's about something similar! but your ending's better
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