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To: yarddog
It appears to me that her body held up better than her face. She does look her age, not that she isn’t still attractive.

That has always been true, it is one of Ben Franklin's many discoveries.

Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a [older] Mistress

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

77 posted on 03/25/2011 9:20:04 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Plutarch

“No spring nor summer beauty has such grace
as I have seen in an autumnal face”

John Donne


80 posted on 03/26/2011 3:57:09 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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