>My step-brother, who is four months older than me, got bifocals a couple of years ago. He called them "old man glasses". I've been resisting getting them ever since that comment.
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may i recommend hanging them around your neck on "menopause strings" (as a friend refers to mine).

I used to console myself that, when the occasion demanded, i could peer over the top of my reading glasses at my kids in the same imperious way i remember teachers peering at me.... then another friend pointed out that all it did was magnify the bags under my eyes.....

[sigh]

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