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How 'Mar-a-Lago face' helped me appreciate aging gracefully

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23.01.2026

Aging is hard. I get it. 

When you’re young, it’s almost impossible to imagine that what you see happening to your parents and grandparents will one day happen to you, too.

Now that I am closer to 50 than 40, when I look in the mirror, I sometimes wonder who is staring back at me. 

Where’d the time go? On my face, apparently. 

With Botox and fillers everywhere (not to mention plastic surgery) – and celebrities and politicians clearly taking part – I am sympathetic to the impulse to join in. Those pesky lines around your eyes and on your forehead? They can disappear! 

Yet, so far, I have resisted getting anything like that done. And I think there’s a good case to Make Aging Normal Again. 

Given the legacy media’s contempt for everything President Donald Trump touches, I initially rolled my eyes when I saw headlines about “Mar-a-Lago face,” a certain aesthetic adopted by numerous people in his........

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