Looking in the mirror was the biggest shockeroo. When she was younger, she’d been forewarned about wrinkles and arthritis, but no one told her that someday she’d have a turkey neck and age spots. Or that her skin would lose all its elasticity. Everywhere. Places she didn’t think could droop, did. Even her elbows looked saggy. Elbows! A part she never gave much thought to, and now the skin over the bend of her elbow looked like a bulldog’s face. She couldn’t remember exactly when all her body parts had dropped. One day she just noticed things had changed.
