She figured out the secret sauce to the mirrors in her one bedroom apartment and blew the whistle on the way mirrors both reflect and distort reality:
“The first mirror is an honest mirror which shows you your wrinkles and shade of hair. This is the mirror next to the exit.
The second mirror is a 4-foot narrow mirror that leans against the wall and if you want to look thinner you just adjust it to your liking. But you get a full-length picture of what you are wearing and look like.
The third mirror is over a big portion of a wall, but the mirror does not reflect a true identity. In this mirror your hair looks darker, your face loses its wrinkles and you get a glorified picture of yourself. This mirror in the bathroom was made special for older tenants, so we are happier looking at ourselves in the bathroom.”
(Age 102)