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Contact Queasy
I was 15 years old and I had been wearing contact lenses for a year or two. It had taken me a long time and a huge amount of effort to become accustomed to wearing them, so I was a little paranoid about the health of my eyes and taking care of my contacts, which…
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Misplaced Glasses
I’ve been wearing eyeglasses for most of my life. Astigmatism and near sightedness dictate corrective lenses. Been wearing them for so long I don’t seem to be me without them…. This one day I misplaced my glasses. Then I remembered I had left them in their case in my desk at school. Mom scolded me…
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I’m Going to Miss the Four-Eyed Me
I’m going to miss the four-eyed me. My doc assures me that after surgery, I’ll be able to toss my specs. “You’ll be able to see just fine without them!” See without glasses? Me? Are librarians even allowed to do that?? Will I be able to throw out my glasses, shed my life-long identity as…
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Glasses are a Part of Me
Sans specs, I’m a total klutz in a world that’s a blur. Reaching for them is the first thing I do each morning and tucking them away in a safe place is the last thing I do before I go to sleep each night. I even wear them when I swim. My glasses are so…
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I’ve Come to Love Wearing Glasses
I’m a librarian. A reader. I identify as a four-eyed person. I’ve always worn glasses. I got my first pair in the second grade. It was a miracle! The blurry world I’d inhabited all my life suddenly came into focus. I could see the blackboard! I could read street signs! I could actually see facial…
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Last Date
Finally he asked for a date! We went to the library—a safe place to get to know each other, sat at a heavy oak table, chairs close together then opened our books as if to study. He began staring, leaning too close and looking through my coke-bottle glasses said Don’t ever marry anyone who is…
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Four Eyes
By 1967 I’d been wearing glasses about three years. This was way before designers thought there was any money to be made crafting frames for the nearsighted. Pretty much everyone who wore glasses back then looked like a dork. If you already looked like a dork without glasses, then you were really in trouble…. So,…
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Public Mishaps Without Glasses
I was only six years old when I flunked an eye test held at the Chicago Public Schools. A week later I was looking through a black contraption with goggles that looked like it belonged on a Russian submarine. I could barely make out the big E on top, much less the rest of the…
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Trick of Sight
I learned a trick in 6th grade to see the board without glasses – pull the corner of your eye back, squash the eyeball a bit and voila, you can see clearer. This trick got me through the next three years. Vanity ruled my young life. Finally, I gave in and got glasses in sophomore…
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Contacts for Teenage Self-Confidence
When I was a shy, bookish fourteen, my two grandmas got together and convinced my parents that if they got me contact lenses, I would have more self-confidence, be prettier, and maybe attract some boys. Those were the pioneer days of contact lenses. They were hard little discs…. The darn things worked well enough, but…
