not quite

he would spend long periods of time just staring at himself in the mirror, trying to catch a glimpse of himself; a flicker of the person he had became but who he didn't know. there were times when he came close to seeing  -- a minimal movement of an eye he had not instigated or an involuntary twitch of the upper lip that was not his -- but he never seemed to quite succeed, never was able to tell if it was him or someone else he was looking at.