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This wouldn't be so strange, except the pollen count may as well be nil. And I did used to get like this every late winter and early spring... but looking back now, I wonder if that was partially the last vestiges of respiratory illness. (As well as allergies.)

Anyway, I don't like it any more today than I did in middle school. Blech. It makes my glasses gross, and it itches, and it's annoying. Antihistimes are doing nothing.

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