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silicone valleys; The average woman getting breast implants isn't who you think she is.
Byline: Sarah Brown
My friend Petra* turned 38 in January, but she has the breasts of a sixteen-year-old. They're just the right size-not too big, not too small. They look perfect in a T-shirt, great in a dress, even better with nothing on, she says with a wink. You'd never know that she purchased them, for about $20,000, at a plastic surgeon's office in South Florida. When she told me, six months ago, of her impending "enhancement," all I could say was, "Why? You're perfect." (She's five foot seven, with a lithe, lean, Pilates-refined body.) "I'm going to be perfect," she said, a serene look of satisfaction washing across her very pretty face. Suddenly, it ...
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...causal relationship have shown no link exists between the silicone implants and the classical autoimmune diseases _ rheumatoid arthritis...responsible and reflective reporters from such newspapers as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News and The...
