Norma Jeane Baker Reflects on Her Future     2007                   by Paul Noonan

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A young girl poses in front of a mirror. Norma Jeane longs to be a movie star like her idol Jean Harlow. Her eyes are locked on her own reflection. She's unaware of the warning signs around her. A breeze has just blown out the candle and beyond the whisps of smoke emerges the ghost of the legend she'd become. The woman's desperately sad, alone, vulnerable, naked. Even in her despair she's hauntingly beautiful. If only Norma Jeane could look beyond her reflection she could yet alter her own destiny but she's lost in her own world. She's going to be a movie star...click thumbs.

   

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