"Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three facesâ€”the face they get when theyâ€™re children, the face they own when theyâ€™re grown, and the face theyâ€™ve earned when theyâ€™re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

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