[Vrondi]

When I got my first pair at age 9, I froze to a complete stop on the sidewalk outside the optometrist's office, exclaiming to my mother about how I could read signs all the way at the other end of the street! I rode home with my face pressed to the car window, exclaiming and marveling about how I could see individual leaves on trees, and interrogating my mother about whether she had always been able to see the individual leaves from far away. It was mind-blowingly magical, like having a movie camera zoom lens suddenly, instead of being limited to close-ups only. Or like finally being given some bionic super power that I never knew everyone else had.