Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

Looking for the Girl

Celebrated photographer Dean Smith tells interviewer Miranda Walker how, as a teenager, he became besotted with Charlotte, a 19-year old model whose face he saw in a men's magazine. Bizarrely, over the years, he would see her again and again in different publications under different names but still only 19. All efforts to find her were in vain until, some twenty years after his first sight of her, she walked into his newly acquired first studio to model for him and still gave her age as 19.