Come January, we look in the mirror and ask ourselves: Who's that flabby person staring back at me?

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Would I recognise the woman staring back at me in the mirror?

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For a moment I focus on the glass and catch the faint, honest reflection of my eye staring back at me, a lock of gray straggly hair in its way.

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With each falling hank of hair, more and more of the disastrous lineaments of my previous self emerged, until, big naked ears and all, staring back at me was the missing link to Howard Wakefield.

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