As a matter of fact, as I think about my friends that are my age and younger, I can’t think of that many of them who have those big, full lips that apparently equate with youth and therefore vibrant sexuality, sans bee sting lips.


I get sort of obsessed with this thought and while my husband/business partner is trolling the convention center looking at all sorts of new equipment related to the world of film and video production, I am looking at women’s lips. Very closely, but clandestinely, so as not to be escorted off the floor as some sort of odd stalker.


First I examine the sales people. Salesmen always wear dark suits, white shirts and ties, even here in casual-in-the desert Vegas. Saleswomen wear dark suits, just enough cleavage, and high heels that make my feet hurt at the thought. They always seem very young (to me), and normally I wouldn’t even consider them in my survey, but since aging has now shackled the thirty-something’s, they have become fair game.


I’m half listening to the rhetoric about the Cameron-Pace 5D cinema cameras - but, I am really checking lips. These youngsters don’t have super plump lips either – not a one.


We move on to the Canon exhibits and I start a deceptive conversa- tion with a female rep whose lips I scrutinize. Normal. Nothing un- usual. Not too plump, not too thin, just right, in proportion to her face.


I know I need to test my premise with some older women, though. At least forty or maybe even FIFTY? (Though, according to what I read, we might as well pack it up at this age and forget it, give up entirely, do not pass go or go straight to the plastic surgeon, post-haste.)


I know exactly where to go next.


I head to the pricey designer bou- tiques of which, here, there are many. This is a little tricky – I’ve


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