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The Golden Splendor Fades
100 Faces in 100 Stories — No18
Jan 18, 2023
I looked in the mirror and saw a ghost of what I had once been. Time had dragged my skin down to become wrinkle lines etched into the once-smooth surface. The tumbling locks that had made my sisters envious had frayed and turned gray.
I closed my eyes and mourned the girl lost to the tide of an hourglass’s unforgiving sands.
I no longer saw the woman my husband had pined after, the one who had flirted and seduced at ease.
Who was I without her youthful glamour of invincibility?
And who was I becoming in that woman’s place?
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