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"Under the Knife"

My mother sits on the edge of the coffee table with her legs crossed. She is wearing an oversized white t-shirt with one sleeve rolled up, and her hair in a haphazard ponytail. She leans forward with her back slightly slouched, as her hands grip the edge of the table. When she talks about something she feels particularly passionate about, her usually distinct, unhurried speech becomes more stumbled and rushed. At times, when she mentions contrasting points, she clasps her hands together and motions from side to side. As she speaks, her crossed leg swings back and forth. 

According

According to

I guess certain standards

Yeah

I was pretty

When I was younger

And just like any other young girl

I was fixated on my shortcomings more than my assets

Oh my eyes are so small

And my hairs is not thick enough

And my butt is so flat

I guess it feels like I'm seventeen again

Except

I know now

At 45 years old getting breast implants does not change 

A percent of me

Of who I am and who I would be and I will be

I doesn't matter

At all

Age factor really does make an important

You get older

You know yourself better

It's not something that you just kinda like oh one day you wake up and decide, okay, alright, I know that's what I want, or this is not what I want. 

You don't know much

When you're young

I'm happy 

With the way the surgery turned out

I mean

Except a little bit of 

Gossipy talk

In the beginning, but I don't really care

I mean

My mother is too old

She's not going to know about my breast implants

So she's the only person who I think would totally object to it because she's

She's

She

Wasn't raised to understand

No

Accepting the surgery is not a matter of being westernized or being easternized

I think it's a matter of being educated or not educated

Education

Broadens your mind, has nothing to do with whether you're eastern thinking or you're western thinking

It's just an acceptance of something that's new and possible

That you could possibly

Do to yourself

To enrich yourself

Or to

Better yourself

Or to

Um

Think that you're doing something for yourself - whatever it is

It's education

It's not - it's not

It's not eastern versus western

You know

I think my best friend did want to do it too

But

She has a

Non-supportive husband 

Who really does not believe in this and

He's really against it

So

She's just

She's just going along with his

Ideas

She's

You know

She's not going against his will

So she decided she doesn't want to do it

If she wants to do it

I think...

He should give her enough freedom in a marriage to allow her to make that personal decision for herself

And not insist on his decision on her

I wouldn't marry somebody

Who wouldn't even allow me that certain amount of personal freedom, I need someone to let me be myself

So

Yeah

In the beginning

Everybody was a little bit surprised

Because

It is something out of the ordinary

Regardless

This is me

Whether, what a-

Pe- what other people look at me

And what they think of me

Why I do it, what I want to do it

It's all irrelevant

I'm 40-something years old

I'm entitled.