Ethan: The Boy Inside All of Us Chapter One: The Mirror Ethan was never comfortable with mirrors. He did not hate his reflection, but he had learned to avoid lingering. Every glance felt like a reminder of what he lacked. There were mornings when he would catch himself looking too long and then quickly turn away, as if he had seen something private, something he was not supposed to witness. He grew up quiet . The kind of boy who listened more than he spoke, who sat in the back of classrooms and kept his head low when teachers asked questions. He was not unpopular, just invisible. The sort of person who blended into every room and could leave without anyone noticing. His insecurities were not born from cruelty. No one bullied him outright. But the quiet comparisons, the side comments, the invisible measuring sticks of adolescence, all built themselves into walls he could never climb over. When puberty came, so did a certain kind of shame. It was not the kind teachers warned about in he...