It was THE day. Time to shine. Laurie stood before the mirror in the green room back of stage.
Could she dazzle the crowd who sat in the audience? If only her Alchemist brother has been there too. He had been working on a secret recipe, refusing to tell anyone what it was.
A teenager was putting on a costume nearby. Oh to be young again. But Laurie was in her 50s. Some said she was still young, but she knew they were only being kind.
The 50 year old actress looked at the teenager again. Then she remembered. That youth was Renee. Renee had asked her a peculiar question when they met on Tuesday. The teen was having trouble with some of her lines and had asked Laurie to mentor her.
After putting on the costume, Renee approached the older lady and her now mentor.
Shyly handing Laurie a letter, she blushed.
Laurie took the envelope. The stamp on the front declared it was from Amsterdam. It must be a letter from her brother.
Ripping it open, she unfolded a letter, written in her brother’s scrawl. A vial of brown liquid tumbled onto her hand as she did so.
Eyes scanned the letter excitedly, but one sentence stood out.
“This vial is the end product of my project and is the Elixir of Youth.”
As soon as she was alone, she promised herself, she’d drink it!
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