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The importance of eye exams
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Thank you for sharing my optical adventures. It will be everyone's reminder to book that appointment 👍
This is so important to talk around eye health. FWIW, I interviewed an optometrist last year on all of the things:
https://youtu.be/_2K_7RbtEIw?feature=shared