Elderly Woman Applying Makeup Most Heartbreaking Thing On Earth
“PARMA, OH—In an unbelievably heartrending and entirely futile undertaking intended to recapture some infinitesimal shred of her faded beauty and youth, 82-year-old Rachel Shultz painstakingly put on her makeup Monday. “This is the same shade of lipstick I wore when I met [Shultz’s long-dead husband] Kenneth,” Shultz said as she steadied her palsied right hand with her left while applying the bright red cosmetic to her thin, bloodless lips, a process that only served to accentuate the weathered crevices crisscrossing her face like hundreds of tiny dried riverbeds. “That was in Cleveland right after the war, back when I was a candy striper. I was quite the looker.” Shultz later dozed lightly in the lobby of her assisted-living center while waiting for her daughter to drive her to a friend’s funeral. ”
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