I place my hands on the table, palms down, for inspection. I am in the consulting room of the President of the British College of Aesthetic Medicine (BCAM) in London. Like most people, I use my hands a lot. I type for hours every day. I go bouldering, which means I have a lot of calluses. I cook, clean, put my hand to my chin while looking out the window. What I never did was see my hands as an object of interest in themselves. Those are afterthoughts. A means to an end. But now that Dr. Sophie Shotter has them in her hands and is weighing my flesh and applying pressure to the skin with her thumbs to see how it moves, I can see the slight ripples of the diamonds, the texture of crepe paper.
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