One fourteen-year-old boy was examined and fitted for glasses. Because of the large amount of correction to be incorporated in his first pair of glasses I was chosen to put a trial pair of glasses on the young man. After placing the trial glasses on him he immediately started looking around. When he saw his mother's face -- which he had never seen before -- his eyes lit up and he smiled. Through my interpreter I tried to explain to him that these were only a trial pair of glasses, but he refused to let me have the trial glasses back.

After half an hour of negotiation, through the interpreter, I was able to assure the young man he would get a pair of glasses exactly like the ones he had on.

He later explained that this was the first time he had ever seen his mothers face.

(Story submitted by Lion Jack Zarybnisky, O.D.)