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Byline: Dodie Kazanjian
I'm doing it at last. After ten years of thinking and writing about plastic surgery and all the latest advances in cosmetic alternatives, after dithering on the brink of taking the plunge myself and then not doing it, after promising my husband (who sees nothing wrong with my face) I wouldn't ever do it, I'm sitting tensely in the beige ultrasuede examining chair in dermatologist Lisa Airan, M.D.'s, white cube of an office, waiting for my procedure to start.
How did I get here? I suppose the bottom-line motive is that, finally and irrevocably, I can't bear the way I look anymore. It's my reptile brain at work, shallow and all ...