Western Walkabout: In the Mirror
Richard Harris has a conversation with himnself.
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I look in the mirror and this old guy looks solemnly back out at me, giving nothing away.
I try a little smile and he gives it right back to me.
“You should smile more often,” I tell him. “You look much better.”
I take another look. “Is that a grey hair I see in your eyebrow?”
He looks concerned.
“It’s coming out,” I say and then go through the rigmarole of laterally inverting my motions while I clip off the offending hair.
‘Now that you’re older,” I tell him, “consider wearing your hair shorter. You’ll look less grey.”
He nods agreement.
It really is a most intimate relationship – the man in the mirror and me. I’ve promised him I’ll look after him and that we are in this life together.
