In this particular scene, Mimi was in her school's dingy playground, engaged in a typical recess. She guessed that she was about ten in this movie. Already, boys were falling for Mimi's short dresses and soft curls. She was surrounded by a group of older boys, and, characteristically, flirting shamelessly, especially for a fifth-grader.
Mimi had never had a problem finding a boyfriend, though she was often taken advantage of. What she really needed, however, she couldn't obtain. She needed to be a normal ten-year-old and have a group of girlfriends to giggle with and have sleepovers with. She needed the kind of sincere, unconditional love that comes only from a best friend. But because almost every fellow schoolgirl was insanely jealous of Mimi's early success with boys, they were all hostile towards her. Consequently, she never had a true friend.
The tunnel rushed Mimi through several similar school scenes, each making her wish that she could have been a normal little girl with normal friends and a normal life, but she never had been. And she could never change her past and the fact that she had been introduced to too much too soon. She had always been ten going on twenty-six. With no real friends and her memories of being beaten, Mimi had always had low self-esteem for herself and her body.
The starry square finally brought her to a scene set somewhere other than school. She groaned. She didn't want to watch this moment. She didn't want to be here anymore. Living her life once had been bad enough.
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