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4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
8th Nov, 2018 02:46:27 PM
Part of Ass Pull, I guess
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
this is when a character who doesn't wear glasses is suddenly revealed to have been wearing contact lenses so that there eyesight can be used as a plot device. one example would be in diary of a wimpy kid the last straw where Greg says he wears contact lenses and he lost them, as a result he has to wear backup glasses. his eyesight was never mentioned before or after this happened.