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"I show you a version of yourself from a tiny fraction of a second in the past. The image you see is never truly you right now. What am I?"

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Take a moment to ponder before you face the answer...

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Answer: A Mirror. Light takes a tiny but real amount of time to travel from you to the mirror and back to your eyes. So the reflection you see is technically from the past — however infinitesimally small that gap is. A beautifully precise riddle.

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