How I Found Joy in Getting Old(er)

Crow’s Feet Prompt #19

Purple hair doesn’t make me look younger, just brighter. Selfie by Marie A Bailey

When I was about ten years old, my favorite TV show was That Girl with Marlo Thomas. Oh, how I envied Ann Marie and how she could live alone in her own apartment, answerable only to herself. I even told my mother how much I looked forward to being like her, to being able to move out and have my own place. I thought my mother would share my enthusiasm. She did not.