when I was young and understood almost nothing except vanity, I visited an elderly Aunt who seemed to me a rather gross creature.
She hosted I and my 2 babies overnight. After dinner I noticed how her husband looked at her and I realized he adored her. I puzzled over this for a long time.
Now I am older and understand much more and I have left most of vanity to the young. This piece acknowledges the answer to that long ago puzzlement.
I look at my husband of 50 odd years and sometimes see the handsome youthful boy I fell for. sort of superimposed over the silver haired man he became.