The Independent - London, June 1st, 1996
The cadavers are kept in the basement of University College London medical school and are worked on in a room tiled in cold white. The 20- year-old medical student, a white coat protecting her sweater and jeans, is cutting carefully into the face of a dead septuagenarian. Searching for the key to the anatomy of the lips, she uses her scalpel to cut away muscle, layer by layer. She knows from Gray's Anatomy that the lips consist of the two orbicularis orbis muscles, which, as everyone knows, or knew, contract into a kiss. But as she dissects first one pair of lips, then another, Annabelle Dytha...
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