Yes, our beauty was our power…and it’s so toxic! As I look in the mirror, I get a sense for what you are saying, however. The lines and wrinkles and puffy eyes are just everyday things now. It will be an adjustment, but I’ll be up for it, I expect…. Unless I am still with a man who always looked at the younger girls (like my ex). That will forever make me feel insignificant and old/unattractive. How hard I worked to be noticed by him…and nothing. For so very, very long. Interesting. You’ve got the whole story, though, sister. Write about it?