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Can we ever make peace with losing our looks?

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Can we ever make peace with losing our looks?

After nearly thirty years of dating, writer Iona Italia found herself being rejected on the basis of her looks. Here's why, at the age of 53, it stung so much

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Apr 10, 2023
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Iona through the years…

I have been thinking a lot about beauty recently. I think it’s to do with getting older. My face changes with each passing year- my jaws sags a little now, my eyes have a slightly weary, faraway look to them, and there are age spots and chin hairs where there never were. What does the world see when they look at me now, I often w…

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