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Margery Eagan writes for Boston Magazine:

Dr. Mack Cheney of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Harvard Medical School professor, is my mini-facelift man, and so much more. Within hours of stitching me up, he’s off to Ecuador with the Medical Missions for Children Foundation to surgically craft new ears for children born without them. He also treats patients with facial paralysis and those disfigured by burns or cancer. In other words, he’s got gravitas. In this context that means, reassuringly, he’s not just rearranging the skin of middle-aged women like those of us speculating madly about one another—stealing secret glances here and there—as we wait in his elegant outer office with its dark wood walls and rich leather couches high above the Charles and the sailboats, the young and taut joggers reminding us of our distant salad days.