By contrast, my wife at fifty-two yeas old seems to me just as attractive as the day I first met her. If I were to say this out loud, she would say, 'Douglas, that's just a line. No one prefers wrinkles, no one prefers grey.' To which I'd reply, 'But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me? It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or fourty-three. It's that face.' Perhaps she would have liked to hear this but I had never got around to saying it out loud. I had always presumed there would be time and now, sitting on the edge of the bed at four a.m., no longer listening out for burglars, it seemed that it might be too late. . David Nicholls
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In this quote, the author, Douglas Adams, is encouraging his wife to accept her aging process. By speaking about his wife’s aging process, he’s making a case that aging is a natural process that does not need to be feared or belittled. In this particular context, he is encouraging her to let herself go and be open to change. He wants her to accept the fact that she will not continue looking the same from moment to moment and instead needs to embrace it and make the best of the situations she is in.

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