The Dirty Mirror: Spotting Manipulative Mimicry and False Trust

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Explore The Dirty Mirror to learn about spotting manipulative mimicry. Understand how psychological mirroring creates a false sense of closeness and siphons energy.

The Dirty Mirror: Spotting Manipulative Mimicry and False Trust

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I don’t know if this was telepathy, but nine months ago, a guy tried to manipulate me with having a girl with me and then I finally figured it out. She doesn’t have the same tattoo for the time of me, but for some reason I snuck into his Instagram to see something that was pulling me and he just put a word mirror and if he was trying to figure out answers from me and I’m in a higher level to help her, but instantly I searched the dirty mirror and I feel like I telepathy to him and I felt draine

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