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I feel bad about my jawline, and with apologies to Nora Ephron, it is responsible for roughly 70 percent of my weirdness about getting older—and looking it.

The outer rim of my face began to soften and round in my early 40s, around the time MH contributor Garrett Munce wrote his authoritative guide to jawline preservation and optimization. And as my jaw gradually lost its literal edge, I often thought about the end of Garrett’s opening paragraph:

“Batman, Superman, Thor, the Human Torch. I could draw dozens of their faces from memory even before the Marvel Cinematic Universe began making gods out of guys named Chris. The one thing they all have in common?…