That no amount of waiting will make straight hair curly and a curly nose straight.

Jack says I'll have my innings when I am an old lady--that I'll not be pretty till I'm old.

Then he says I'll make a beautiful grandmother, like Grandma Ware.

He says her face was like a benediction.

That's what he wrote to me just before I left home.
Of course I'd rather be a beauty than a benediction, any day.