In Defense of Ugliness

Nobody wants wrinkles. I don’t want wrinkles. I’m stressed out by the smile lines dragging my face down. Sometimes I try to make my eyes look rounder with makeup, sprinkle freckles across my nose, add a childlike pout to my mouth. It’s a game of seeing how young I can make myself look. A lot of people tell women who are afraid of aging that wrinkles and…