Seven years old is young enough that a face can slip away if you don't hold it somewhere. Going back into this after all these years with a different medium in your hand, that's not revising a painting, that's reaching back through the work to what you needed her to be when you started it. Oil pastels move differently than oil does, they let you push into what's already dry without destroying it. I hope you found something in there tonight that stays.

You went back in 45 years later with oil pastels and let yourself find her again. That's what a first portrait should be, the one you had to paint.