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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. As always, thanks for the useful responses. I wanted to circle back to comments about it being a body issue problem. I did some thinking with all these comments swirling through my head and while it may be in some part a body issue, I think it's more of a correction than an underlying self-loathing. I've always loved how I looked even with the extra weight of childbirth. And believe me, I have my fair share of normal aging issues...face wrinkles, veiny hands, vericose veins, stained teeth..all of which could also be fixed with procedures but I consider them all normal consequences of getting older and appropriate for my age. The breast situation is different. They look like an error, like they clearly do not fit onto my otherwise normally aging but fit body. So is this a body issue that I harbor? Yes, I guess so. But Im starting to feel like aging gracefully does not necessarily mean living with an anomaly for the rest of your life at the expense of your self esteem. And yes, if I get them done, I'll hand in my crunchy card...but won't stop being crunchy! Again, thanks everyone for your honest feedback. [/quote]

As someone who shares your values and your concerns (on both sides), I would like to say as gently as possible that the slippage in definition of aging gracefully really has a lot do with the fact that aging is now more costly than you thought it would be when you made those opinions in the past. I was against dying my hair until my hair started going gray. I would argue that it is prematurely gray, but who knows because everyone dyes their hair. I now pout, "yes, i want to stay natural, but I don't want to look old!" I obviously haven't seen your breast so I don't know what the anomaly is, but you haven't seen the breasts of women your age who have had children, so they may not be as anomalous as you feel they are. Again, I am not saying it isn't because I haven't seen them and also haven't seen everyone else's. But we have to be careful because as we age, and feel the negative impacts of aging (body changing away from the norm of attractiveness) it is easy to start changing your definition of growing old gracefully. It is also easy to start defining perfectly normal though bothersome changes as abnormal. It could be that your age is showing in your breasts, not that your breasts are an error. Finally, when the rest of you catches up, your breasts will then be an anomaly for your age, in that they will be "too young." Will you change them back?
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