[ WP ] A magical mirror shows your reflection and your future soulmate . You only see your reflection .

When I heard about the mirror, I had some trouble believing it. My mom told me about it, and she was a more spiritual type, keen to believe whatever some purported `` shaman'' or `` medium'' would tell her. I did n't listen to any of it. It was all rubbish, after all. 
 
 But when my sister told me about the mirror, I felt a little less cynical, and a little more skeptical. My sister was much more shrewd than my mother, more likely to put effort into believing cold, hard fact than hoaxes. If she thought it was real, then hell, it must be real. 
 
 `` When I looked in, I saw my husband by my side. It was perfect.'' I remember her telling me. Soulmates, that's what we were supposed to see in the mirror. I figured, *why the hell not. What have I got to lose, anyway? * 
 
 I put on my coat, hat, and sunglasses, and stepped outside to walk the 8 blocks to the market, where the mirror had been set up. The line stretched around the market at least twice, but I had time to kill, so I went ahead and joined them. 
 
 After an hour and a half had passed, I was finally able to approach the mirror. I walked up to it, and took a peek, and to my surprise, there was nothing there except for me, unassuming old me, in my coat, hat, and glasses. I raised my hand to scratch my head, a bit disappointed at the results, when I got this funny feeling. It felt like it almost... *zeroed in* on my hand. I moved it up and down and left and right, and the little tingle I was feeling seemed to somehow follow it. Must just have been my mind playing tricks on me. It's not easy finding out that you do n't have someone to share your future with, after all. Maybe this little hallucination was just my mind's way of coping. 
 
 When I finally got home, I clicked my door shut, opened up my computer, grabbed some tissues, and got busy.
