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When I gaze into a mirror on the walls of gents' cloakrooms in a pub or a club, I usually think I'm looking at someone else.
Most of the time, age feels like a mask — something that I wear, not something I am — and when I gaze fondly at the faces of my old friends I can see them as they were when we were young.
When I gaze into the noble and weary face of "The Standard Bearer," Floris Soop, I am seeing him for the hundredth time; even "Aristotle With a Bust of Homer" strikes me as a scene glimpsed through a neighbor's window.
When I gaze at a human being or a face that's become the subject of a photograph, my first impulse is to greet the image the way I greet my own image in the mirror, or my Uncle Harry's, standing beside me in his wedding suit — to greet them gratefully, as if someone recognizable were there.
While I, too, can be filled with sadness when I gaze down the platform and remember the shopping mall and the crowds of people who are no longer there, I appreciate the convenience that the opening of the station brings to me and many.
When I gaze at a human being or a face that's become the subject of a photograph, my first impulse is to greet the image the way I greet my own image in the mirror, or my Uncle Harry's, standing beside me in his wedding suit to greet them gratefully, as if someone recognizable were there.
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Part of this feeling was connected to what I felt when I gazed at my father's library: that I was living in the provinces, far from the center of things.
I was quickly beguiled by Zenyatta in June when I gazed up at her at her home track, the pink deco Hollywood Park, with my friend David Israel, the vice chairman for the California Horse Racing Board.
How - when I gazed down my rifle-telescope at the exquisite animal grazing in the woods, twitching the flies away with its ears - did I manage to pull the trigger that ended its life?
When I first gazed up at Rudy and Seth, I was confused by what I saw: were there four figures spotlit against the clock beneath the bells?
Mission accomplished, sir! Yes, I, like all sane women, dream of a life with Donald, and this happens most often when I'm gazing across the breakfast table at my fourth husband, Dane.
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