It was always the eyes.

There was this tag-along link on some site about women who have aged gracefully. I linked it. Mostly because I love Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch. My wife was scornful. Not gracefully but surgically, she said. And Zincavage highlighted a woman I’ve always been in love with. Charlotte Rampling. Except I always thought of her as a younger Lauren Bacall. How old I am. But not dead. Not quite. She had a body but you’d have a conversation…

She didn’t care, but should you? Yes. Her carelessness is your embarrassment.

But Zincavage was right. She’s old and beautiful and someone you’d absolutely have to have a perfect dinner with.

I just want to have dinner with her. Keep thinking of Opie’s stricture
about “skinny eyes.” I’ll go for hers any day, every day.