Everyone in the world strives
to be beautiful. They'd want to keep young forever, if, possible.
比賽主席、各位先生女士: 我每天早晨必做的一件事就是看著奧黛麗˙赫本的照片,藉著劃上一層層的眼線及貼上雙層眼皮貼紙,企圖營造出像奧黛莉˙赫本般的大眼睛。 My friend, Katherine's eyes were also very small, that was why we became friends. Before the Chinese new year, I thought she looked different: her skin was shining, and her eyes were twice as big! 我朋友凱薩琳也是小眼睛,因此我們成了好朋友。春節前我注意到她變了,她的皮膚她的眼睛變大了! So I asked her: “What did you do?” She replied. “It's plastic.” “No way! You did it? Tell me all about it!”
Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to know?
「不可能!妳真的去整型了?快告訴我詳情!」
Then she gave me the contact of
the doctor.
接著她給了我醫生的聯絡方式
That night I went back home; I looked at the beautiful young Hepburn and
myself in the mirror. The scientists are right. After age 25,
everything goes down: our eyes go down, cheeks go down, and…everything
goes down, except, our age.
I didn't tell Katherine the
truth when I said: I don't need this. Deep inside, I am as desperate as
any other woman to keep young and beautiful. If I can have the big
charming eyes of Audrey Hepburn, my life will be different, and I can
get any man, I mean, anything I want! Right away, I picked up the
phone, dialed the number and made the appointment. That very morning, I entered that small clinic. After telling the doctor my requirement, he gave me a quick look and said:
“Your eyes are not too
small.” 「妳的眼睛不小啊!」 「真的嗎?」我真是受寵若驚。
「可是妳的臉太大了!」
這真是我收到前所未有最真的講評。 Although he wasn't good at evaluation, he was certainly persuasive: Don't worry, we can fix that problem and make you look ten years younger. Now choose whatever you desire: eyes, lips, noses, Korean, Hong Kong, or Hollywood; we can make you a 3-D face in just one hour and 40 minutes, Plus, we now offer a special discount for the full package service. Only 50,000 dollars. You mean, within one hour and 40 minutes and 50,000 dollars, I can get big eyes, a 3-D face, and look 10 years younger?! Check, please. I booked the surgery the very next day! Now, to be or not be, that is no longer a question. With money and modern technology, beauty can last FOREVER! That night, I relaxed myself and watched a movie; an old actress looked very familiar. At the end of the movie I saw her name: Audrey Hepburn. That….that can't be her! She's the incarnation of perfection! She can't be that wrinkle-faced old woman. Why? Why didn't you do something to save your beauty? With the question still in my mind, next day, I went to the clinic for surgery. As I lay on the operating table, the headlight cast on my face, and shone on my doubts. Somehow, I knew, I was going to be different. Keep young and beautiful, If you want to be loved.
I didn't have the surgery. The
doctor asked me, why. In Audrey's later years, she devoted herself to helping children all over the world. She spent all her time and money to help improve the lives of the poor and the needy families. She didn't try to preserve the beauty on her own face; rather, she passed it on to every single young face she touched. I'm still wearing the same big face and same small eyes, but something is different--here. I no longer need that full package service since I have learned the secret. No matter how hard we try to preserve our youth, someday it will fade. The only way to stay young forever is not to keep it in ourselves but to pass it on to those who live after us. Just last month, through the World Vision, I adopted a seven-year-old boy; his name is Gabriel; and he loves football very much. Ladies and gentlemen, I may start from a little, but I know this little beauty is going to make a difference. Whether you have started spreading your beauty, from Audrey Hepburn, I now deliver to you this full package of secrets, for free. May we all have her courage and wisdom to seek this eternal beauty and pass it on to the later generations, so that we may live forever young and beautiful.
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