Cosmetic surgery is often viewed as our interminable battle against aging and self-perceived flaws.
What seems to be different today in many places is that it’s acceptable to talk publicly about all those age-removing techniques. Not so long ago, these things were kept a secret. Remember when people suddenly got young or bosomy, and when asked how they did it, they told you they were just taking extra zinc. Zinc futures skyrocketed.
Certainly it can restore one’s original beauty. No harm in that. As long as you remain reasonably the same person everybody knows. Or have the courtesy to wear a name-tag.
There is a story about a handsome man who marries a beautiful woman and their children all turn out to be extremely unattractive, looking nothing like either parent. The father questions his patrimony, and so a test is done. And it proves the children are his. He doesn’t believe it and rages for his wife to own up. Finally the mother admits that she had extensive plastic surgery long before their marriage and never told him. This ends their relationship. Court document reason for divorce: My kids are ugly.
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