Dear LPG,

I am supposing that most LPG readers can relate to what I am about to say.

I have become conscious that I don’t recognise the reflected face in the mirror; I have become my father, so I have coined this phrase “age the looks taker” because that’s what it does.

The once handsome, attractive or beautiful face (men and women) have been replaced by what you see now. Only old photos can bear witness to new acquaintances, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to what you once look like in your younger days, you were young like them once.

As a youth growing up in the 50’s I can remember the handsome movie stars of the time, Tony Curtis, Cornel Wilde, Harry Belafonte, Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, Sydney Poitier, Steward Granger, Errol Flynn and many more, they all aged and if they are alive, they would have lost their looks. Very few of the fore-mentioned are still with us in the 21st century.

I remember the beautiful actresses from that era also, Piper Laura, Ava Gardner (voted the most beautiful woman) Elizabeth Taylor, Lorna Turner, Jane Russell, Lena Horne and many more, their beauty would fade if they were still with us, so no one should lose sleep over faded looks, it is part of life, be glad to be alive and kicking.   

Rudy Morgan