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they will always be. If our characters have developed, if we have struggled and sacrificed and fought, our faces will tell the tale.

The story is told of a well-known public character that when he held in his hand a photograph of himself with all the lines smoothed out and all the wrinkles obliterated, he objected. "It cost me fifty years of hard struggle and endeavor to put those lines in," he said, "and I don't want them taken out."

Perhaps those who took part in the reunion did not look young to the senior, but they showed character; they had been through a fight and had won the battle.

June