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That Damn Jennifer

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My "friend" Jennifer has been around since I was a young girl.  She was everything that I wasn't.  Her hair was curly, sometimes long and sometimes short and wavy.  She was tall and slender and had matching sweater sets and cool shoes.   Her bedroom was pink and she had a bed with a canopy over it and a pink princess phone.   In high school she was a cheerleader and the prom queen.  She could do the splits and oddly I envied that most since it was the one thing that kept me from being a cheerleader  Jennifer took advantage of my lack of confidence especially with "the popular girls".  She made me feel that I was not good enough.  I didn't measure up to their standards.  Or hers. Jennifer was my imaginary friend and biggest critic.  Sometimes I let her into my head too much and she would try to run my life. Jennifer is the woman that we all  try to be or at least that society tells us we should be.  She is the young girl in the commercials for wrinkle reducin