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was this supposed to be loss? it doesn’t look like loss

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Missed opportunity!

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loss-ed opportunity…

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It would make its actual meme, instead of just an image of something interesting.

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On a road trip through Ontario one year we met a couple of teenagers at a country gas station near Ottawa with pupils in the shape of a cat … a vertical almond shape. I freaked out when I saw the girl first and jumped back. She was used to the reaction and said she just looked like that and it wasn’t a trick. She then said her brother had the same thing and he came to see us.

This was about 25 years ago before novelty contact lenses were around … they may have been around but I had never heard of them at the time.

It’s a weird thing to see just these tiny differences to the human anatomy … it immediately makes you think that something is wrong or not right. It makes you realize just how easily prejudices are born.

The two people were really nice small town people and we had a good conversation and we even left them a tip before we never saw them again.

Then again that is the special thing about differences though … I’ve seen so many 'normal looking" people in my life and none of them stand out, but I can still picture these two and I’ll never forget them.

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Fwiw, 25 yrs ago was 1999, and I remember seeing these for sale at my eye doctor even before that. These kids may have been fucking with you…

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“Do you read Sutter Cane?”

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I wonder who their favorite author is?

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a.k.a devil spawn

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