The full-length mirror in the bedroom was the best place for Joanne Wilson to see how she looked. Glaring intensely into it, she was quite pleased with the image that glared back at her. She was wearing her new dark blue dress with a short neck scarf of a different shade of blue. Her dark brown hair was luxuriously brushed out to shoulder length, and her make-up had been carefully applied to highlight her high cheekbones, clear white skin, and blue-grey eyes. Not bad at all for forty-seven she thought, and she knew that she could easily pass for a woman ten and maybe a few more years younger.
Joanne returned to her dressing table, sat down, and frowned at herself in a different mirror. She had taken more than an hour dressing, making-up, and brushing her hair. Even so, her mind, all the t
