She, like the group of similarly wealthy and listless women she trafficked in at the school, had been experimenting in some kind of self-optimization, where they could transform their faces but also delve, just briefly, into the mysteries of their souls. They started by going to a dermatologist who was also a psychologist, who had a method for prescribing based upon the exact shape a person’s face should be—“the face of origin,” she called it—but then would also use the concentration of lines these women had to determine what was bothering them so much. It seemed like a revelation to them, but
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