Today being May 1, go outside and wash your face in the early morning dew. I just did and I'm sure my neighbors see me do it every year but they're afraid to approach me about it. Heh heh heh. Legend has it that it ensures youth and beauty for you for another year. I used to call my second mom, Helen, who lived to be 82, and one year I forgot and she called me and said "Hey! You'd better find something to improve your memory! You forgot to tell me to wash my face in the dew!" May 1 is bittersweet for me because I sure do miss her, my mentor and good friend, who taught me how to plant flowers and who said "You can't improve upon God's handiwork but you can be his helper". A stroke took her but the day before she was lifting heavy boxes and working at the food bank, so she lived a good, long life and the morning dew kept her beautiful inside and out.
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