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I’ve been on Zepbound since last August, a fact that I’ve shared with only four people besides my wife and medical professionals largely because of guys like Adam. On weekends, my wife and I and our daughter can usually be found at one of the three playgrounds within ten minutes of our apartment — it was at one of these, late last summer, where I met Adam. The unspoken law of local playground culture is that you don’t have to talk with other adults, but if your kid befriends theirs, then it’s only a matter of time before you’re exchanging numbers and putting names into your phone like “Dad Josh: redhead daughter in Liberty shirt” or “Russian mom of son with big head” and a note to figure out her name before you make things weird. Adam — not his real name, obviously — was one of those guys who does all the talking, and his opinions weren’t bad or offensive, just sort of dumb. We somehow got on the topic of how I wear moisturizer with SPF in it, and he told me that he just didn’t see the point in men putting stuff on their faces. “Just age gracefully,” he said before going on a little rant about how “everybody is trying to change their bodies” and bringing up drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound, the latter of which I’d just started taking a few days earlier.
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