Dear AMS,
     In all of your publicity shots you are radiantly youthful, yet you often talk of your experiences in World War One and your acquaintance with Queen Victoria. I find myself wondering if there's a portrait of you locked away that's not doing so hot. How do you do it, what's  your secret?

   Yours hopefully,
   Aging in Melbourne
 

Dear Aging,
     Caught and cornered! Its true.... I am well over 100 years old. But during my youth I read the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, how he stayed eternally youthful by transferring all his aging to the portrait of himself locked away in the attic. I then spent months sketching a painting in exact detail of myself. Well to my surprise it worked. As my friends and acquaintances aged I stayed magnificently young! If only you hadn't revealed it... Now I'm afraid the spell is broken and I've lost my immortality…  All the years of living the lifestyle that I have are collected in that painting will be returned to me and I’ll change into that pitiful image!
     Yes this is what I am doomed to become…. The Picture of SuzW
 

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