selves

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When meeting potential music supervisors for “Elle,” Kittrell, Dries and Neustadter asked candidates to submit playlists that captured their high school selves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2026

How do we transform ourselves from callow pseudo-selves to rooted solid selves?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

Holloway added: "I want to express to people that you are allowed to evolve and change and embrace the whole story, their whole selves."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

He just gave them permission to be their true selves.

From Salon • May 26, 2026

And sometimes the look spread to include their whole bodies as they leaned away to minimize the possibility of physical contact between the two and their own selves.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson