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As a lissom 20-year-old I resented my waddly disguise, but came around to a riveting truth: being attractive was less useful to me than being free.

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“It’s also put together with a lissom confidence and a breeziness that more than compensates for a gossamer lightness when it comes to substance.”

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On the 6 and 6 Plus, it’s lissom.

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It's lissom and light – insubstantial, but in a good way.

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Somewhere along the way during the past 14 years the lissom whippersnapper with the fleet feet turned into the craggy old hulk who will line up against England on Sunday.

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