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Working Title: Shes All Growed Down: From YKTTW
omgdragonfly: As I understand it, this trope only applies when we actually see how the old woman looked when she was young? Not just when she says she used to be a looker?
In the creepy-creepy Disney adaptation of Something Wicked This Way Comes, there's a Hall of Mirrors that transforms you into your best memory of yourself. The old, prunelike schoolteacher looks and sees the gorgeous teen version of herself — ''but then is stricken blind.'
Shouldn't this be I Was Quite a Looker?'
