“It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.”
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Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
