1.0 link 29980 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-henderson/losing-beauty_b_29980.html When I was a pre-teen, I remember well my mother's fear of aging, how she'd look into the magnifying mirror, fixated on the smallest wrinkles and plucking gray hairs. Then, as now, my mother and I were consumers of those glossy magazines in which every woman featured on a cover looks as if she's 23 - whether she is, in fact, 12 or 50.

I was angry when my mother's mirror got in the way of our talks....

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