Asked & Answered~257

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"I saw Monica as a stranger, Dr. Shirley! Omigod, we're old!" 

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"Back up a step, Julie. What are you talking about?"

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"Monica and I have been BFF since grade school.

I picked her up at the airport this morning. She'd only been gone a week!"

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" ...And?"

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"And, during the split second it took me to register that it was her, as she passed 

through Arrivals, I saw her as an old woman!" 

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" A Filter Freeze. It can strike randomly."

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" ...A Filter Freeze?!"

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"Yes, a condition which can result in Reality Intrusion."

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"Omigod, will it pass? Is there a cure, Dr. Shirley?!"

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"Yes dear, Filter Recalibration--makeup and soft lighting."

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