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The New Face of Richard Norris

By Jeanne Marie Laskas · GQ · August 2014
The New Face of Richard Norris
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"For fifteen years, Richard Norris had a face too hideous to show. Then, one day, a maverick doctor gave him a miracle too fantastic to believe. Richard got a face transplant, a new life, and a new set of burdens too strange to predict. What's it like to live with a face that wasn't yours—and that may never quite be?"

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