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| | Saving face | Magazine | The Observer |
 | | For a woman who feels trapped in a body which does not fit her sense of who she is, cosmetic surgery is a chance to look normal.' Helen Bransford wrote Welcome to Your Face-lift, a witty and sisterly book about cosmetic surgery, part memoir of her own face-lift, and part guide and hand-holder for novitiates. |
 | | Describing her rediscovered joie de vivre after surgery she wrote, 'For me, face retrieval seemed a more apt term than face-lift.' Like a majority of cosmetic-surgery patients, she wanted to look 'like myself again', not like Julia Roberts. |
 | | Reality means that if you have work done on your face, you'll look like hell for a couple of weeks, and not fully recover for a couple of months. |
| observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,914791,00.html (2487 words) |
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