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Letter: Two more ways to keep the tears from your eyes (1)

Published 9 July 2025

From Agatha Windig, Rochester, New York, US

During the years that I was wearing hard, gas-permeable contact lenses, I had no problem cutting onions without crying(24 May, p 12). It must be the iris and the pupil, in particular, that are affected by onion particles, right?

Issue no. 3551 published 12 July 2025

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