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Byline: Amy Larocca
Does anyone really look their age anymore? Women are battling time--and sometimes winning.
A couple months ago, my boyfriend came home from a work trip to Los Angeles, walked into our apartment, and made a sudden announcement: "Botox is the new wrinkles," he said.
I knew exactly what he meant. Traditional markers of age--wrinkles, brown spots, that general dullness--have lately ceded to something tight, smooth, expression-free. I've noticed it, too, and not just in Los Angeles. There's a new age out there, and it looks like no age at all. It's a suspended netherworld inhabited by women who might be 28, or 35, or 42, or 50. ...