I'm glad I'm not young any more

On the teen versus the mid-life years.

I am 13-years-old and I am watching Gigi with my grandmother in her upstairs sitting room - “my boudoir”, as she refers to it, only half in jest. My grandmother swears by Chanel perfume, well-fitting shoes, M&S, musicals, and giant bars of Galaxy. I stay with her every few weeks, and we combine the last two after I have spritzed myself with the first. I…