Maria Colsey Heard, 54, stared at her new professional headshot. There was her curly hair, now gray instead of dyed blonde. She felt a combination of shock and elation. 

“It was, ‘Wow, I really am in my 50s,” the lawyer in Silver Spring, Md., says. “My biological age looking back at me.”

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