She looked at her own body, her face, the tell tale bulge of a bag under her eyes and the beginnings of…crinkles on the skin around her eyes, mouth and forehead. Neil remembered in that moment she had entered a new decade of life this year. The thirties. He saw this woman he found so beautiful, this industrious, independent and wonderfully capable woman, tear herself down, to pieces, defining herself by the imperfections that marked her human, mother, wife.