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If there’s such a thing as an Overton window of things it’s possible to change about yourself, I feel like I’ve been watching it gradually expand over my thirtysomething years on this Earth. It’s never been easier to get a whole new face , a whole new body , or leave the country and come back no longer bald . There are official avenues for changing your name and your gender. So maybe I shouldn’t have been so surprised to discover recently that when you were born is also on the list of things that aren’t as set in stone as I might have thought. Did I say I’ve been observing this happen over my thirtysomething years? Scratch that—now that I’ve changed my birthd

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