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âYou were the most beautiful baby,â my mother once said to me. âBut I was worried that your lips were going to be too thin.â Though it must be stated for the record that she now vehemently denies ever having made this declaration, she wasnât entirely wrong. Even before Zoom enabled us to become freakishly attuned to the idiosyncrasies of our faces, Iâve long bemoaned a lack of volume, and despite having learned how to smile in such a way that my upper lip wonât disappear when I flash my teeth, sometimes I forget, and often wish that I didnât have to pay it any attention at all.