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Having trouble with the fine print? Inexpensive drugstore reading glasses may be all you need

Sooner or later we all discover that our arms just aren't long enough to read anymore. You know the problem. You can't focus on the small type in books and magazines and on aspirin bottles at your normal reading distance, and so you start moving the print farther and farther away. If you haven't already experienced this trombone effect, don't worry, you will. Starting around age 40, the lenses in most people's eyes start to weaken. You begin to lose the ability to focus on things close up and have to resort to bifocals or reading glasses to make out the...

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