I don’t like my chin.<\/p>\n
The skin hangs from it like it’s not really attached to anything.\u00a0 Maybe it would be more appropriate to say I don’t like my neck, but I don’t see that there’s much difference.\u00a0 It’s simply that part of me between my jaws and my shoulders that really has me undone.<\/p>\n
I know I\u2019m old, but I’ve only gained ten pounds in the past forty years.\u00a0 I’m far from being obese, though with the shrinkage in my height due to osteoporosis, I do have a bit of a roll around my middle. \u00a0I’m still a solid size 8, however, and my husband insists I’m hot<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen elderly women whose faces were smooth, yet their necks looked startlingly different, rough as a turkey’s wattle (the red thing that makes a turkey so, well, unique).\u00a0 I assumed it was the result of applying moisturizer only as far down as the jaw, so for years, I have moisturized liberally, from forehead to tits.\u00a0 As a result, the skin hanging from my chin is smooth.<\/p>\n
The problem is, it’s hanging.<\/i><\/p>\n
It used to hug my jawline tightly; if you looked at me from the side, you saw practically a ninety-degree angle, chin to neck, and neck to chest.\u00a0 Now, it’s more of an arc, moving towards becoming a straight, though wavy, line, running from my chin directly to the Adam’s apple.<\/p>\n
I kid you not.<\/p>\n
And it’s not thick and fat, it’s just loose skin.<\/p>\n
My gosh, what if all of my skin starts doing this???\u00a0 Will I end up with webbed fingers and toes, possibly even wings flapping from my shoulders?<\/p>\n
I’m trying very hard to embrace this stage in life, but it is seriously getting difficult.<\/p>\n
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