I got an email from my pal, Ginger! She told me that a week ago she had a really low blood sugar and her vision was really weird. Her friend was passing her gluten free macaroons and she couldn't focus on her. Ginger wrote, "Yeah, my friend Rachel was with me and I couldn't for the life of me get my eyes to look correctly at her! I was looking at her knees while I was trying to see her eyes!" I knew what she was talking about!
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