Hey, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. I'm Tim McIntosh. And I'm Sean Johnson. And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Ernan Diaz's novel Trust. We're discussing part three, a memoir remembered by Ida Pretenza. That's part three.

That means we can also talk about parts one and two in some greater depth.

Oh, thank God.

But first, I'm noticing all three of you are wearing glasses and you're all wearing similar

styles of glasses and I'm feeling a little left out.

Well, Heidi, are these, the glasses are relatively new for you, right?

They're so new for me.

I've never had glasses before my whole life.

I have this weird mono vision when I have one eye that is near-sighted

and one eye that's far-sighted.

And so together, they've always been the perfect 2020 vision. But just this year, my eyes are starting to decline. So now I

have reading glasses for all my work on the computer. Last episode, she was, we were talking about

her birthday. Now we were talking about our birthday.

Now we're talking about how she's declining.

It's just my eyesight.

Oh, okay.

All right.

The rest of everything else is ship shape.

Okay.

I had to get glasses in the fourth grade, so maybe you're getting younger.

Maybe so.

I like that idea.

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