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A lot of people are posting about invisible illnesses. I have a lot of the usual stuff that comes with being over 60--asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure--but those are controlled. The one disability that bothers me the most is supposed to be invisible but isn't quite. I am hard of hearing, and I wear two small devices of the color that I hope we know enough not to call "flesh," one in each ear.

I HATE IT. I have to make people face me, and speak clearly, and often repeat things. Without wanting to, I have become a demanding person.

Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from Them

Improved book titles. They left out The Decline and Fall of the Empire That Changed the World

Thanx to Making Light.