"Vanity, thy name is woman"

Who can name that quote????????  Anyway it is a great transition into my depressing discovery.

Last night we went to the wedding reception of a sweet couple Dad had sealed earlier in the afternoon.  It was shocking to me to learn that the mother of the bride was born the year Dad and I were married!!!  I often am surprised to see a picture of myself and realize that I've definitely "thickened" around my middle much as my Aunt Anne and Aunt Nellie did; and that I'm getting the same lines around my mouth, and the same wrinkle in the form of a cross above my upper lip, that they had, and which as a child I thought was so weird. The wrinkles I inherited from the Whiting's.  From Mother I have the thin, loose skin that shows the large veins on my hands, the "chicken skin" on my neck and the sad fact that my jowl skin is starting to sag as Aunt Leora's did.  I guess all this is natural and inevitable without resorting to plastic surgery, but it is still a jolt and a shock to look in the mirror.   

All of this is especially depressing since I am exercising, eating less, and I still feel as young as ever inside!

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Wendy W. Bentley