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Show You can tell your aging when you have more wrinkles than the Pumpkin By Mary Gae Evans I'AROWAN I really wanted to get into the spirit of Halloween thus year so I worked for hours locked away in itie bathroom preparing an elaborate costume. I put on a ragged old pair of pants I found in the bottom of a box in the closet, an old grey shirt and faded green army coat and shoes borrowed from the neighbors and three sizes too big, and a rubber dracula mask that covered my whole head. I added deer hunting gloves and blacked out two teeth. Then I slipped out the back door and went around and knocked on the front. My husband answered the door and without changing expression ex-pression said "So there you are, when is my dinner going to ber ready?" That's the kind of attention you get after 20 some odd years of marriage. I'm wondering, I mean do you suppose some of the excitement ex-citement is draining out, 10 years ago he would have at least pretended he didn't know me until I got a treat or two. You can't help noticing little things like when you are wearing a negligee and sexy perfume and he comes home, heads for the alka seltzer, burps a couple of times and turns on the football game before he tells you you'd better get dressed or you'll catch cold. And when birthday and Christmas presents go from perfume and black silk things to lawn mower parts and sup-hose, you can tell some of the magic is gone when you'd rather stay home, loosen your belt and take off your shoes, than put on your wedgies and eyelashes and go out dancing dan-cing or even walking, and when the highlight of your day is finding a lost sock under the couch and a matching one hanging over the curtain rod in the boys bedroom. It's also a bad sign when the creme you've been using for wrinkles suddenly stops working, and the bags under your eyes look like they've been packed for a long trip. Well, ' enough of this sentiment, I've got to get on to the next house with my trick or treat pumpkin. |