Damn Sixties!

Dear Friends,
Ten years ago today, I looked at myself in the mirror and thought, damn I look good for fifty! Perhaps it was grief of losing my father in the spring talking, or my deteriorating eyesight. But, I kept repeating Gloria Steinem's famous line to everyone who complimented me that year, "This is what 50 looks like!"

This morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and thought, damn, my face looks like a raisin, brownish and shrivelled! I rushed to google Gloria Steinem's quotes. "Sixties are better!" She had claimed. Clearly, my reflection in the mirror was saying otherwise. None of the catchy phrases that I had so gullibly lined up for this decade of my life (the sexy sixties, the sultry sixties, the seductive sixties, the slutty sixties, the serene sixties) matched my face body or mood! 
I can understand gravity, wrinkles, pigmentation, but where did the eyebrows and eyelashes go? And who told the ears to grow? Scary Sixty!