>About a year ago I noticed that I had to start holding books further away when reading.

So your eyes are getting better than they were, if you can read at a greater distance! You can still see the Sun, right?

>Now that is a true sign of aging! :o) I went for the full eye exam right after and he told me it was normal and I was lucky that it hadn't started earlier. Yikes.

's'sposed to start at about 40. That was bang on in my case. I went from reading unaided for a while to read one sentence then my eyes went gozzy. I'd always been long-sighted (as a kid I could read unaided for hours before my bad eye would start packing up) but suddenly went long-, short- and presby- all in one go, it seemed.

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>>>Oh, if only that were the truth! :o) However, dealing with reality, the reality is that I am 46 and soon to be 47! If you look close enough you can see my crows feet... :o)
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>>Yeah right. You look about 18 from what I can see, but then again, my eyes have lied to me before!