It got to where Ray Bergey kept one pair of reading glasses alongside the television remote, another on his bedside reading table, still another in the car and at least one more at the office.

Pairs piled up as he repeatedly upgraded lenses to keep pace with increasingly blurry near vision.

"My world was going from one set of readers to the next," says Bergey, who is 47 and a real estate agent. "Part of my own psychology was, hey, how bad is this going to get?"

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