GQ?S JEANNE MARIE LASKAS ON LIVING WITH A FACE THAT?S NOT YOUR OWN; DISCOVERS FACE TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT RICHARD NORRIS MAY NOT BE BETTER OFF THAN BEFORE
&August issue on newsstands nationwide August 29
 
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. GQ?s Jeanne Marie Laskas discovers that this face-transplant recipient may not be better off than before. Excerpts:
 
He's been living with his new face for two years now, and he's undeniably attractive?clean-shaven, youthful, the kind of guy you would hire to run the front office. He takes a seat facing the crowd, arms splayed out, cool as Justin Bieber on a late-night talk show. Everyone stares at him, and some cock their heads. He's used to this; sometimes people applaud. Is he smiling? His new face doesn't move a lot.
 
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