operculum
Synopsis
A visit with seven cosmetic surgeons specializing in surgical eyelid alteration. Depicts this procedure as self-mutilation, a desperate cure and extreme antidote to undesirable "Oriental" features. Includes a textual description of amygdalectomy through the orbital socket.
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