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==Summary==
[[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] almost hits a dog when practicing her driving, revealing to [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] that she can’t see too well on the side, as her heavy glass frames block the vision. This prompts Helen to insist she try contact lenses, an idea Daria first scorns at, because past chats have taught her her mother thinks "if I get contacts I'll suddenly turn into the homecoming queen". Her mother, however, is able to turn Daria's argument back on her, agreeing people should accept Daria as she is "instead of seeing your glasses and jumping to some moronic conclusion based on ridiculous stereotypes and their own ignorance." ("Good one.")
Daria starts to think about trying contacts, but is worried when an unwitting [[Jane Lane|Jane]] casually remarks how the glasses are part of Daria’s "persona": someone who doesn't care about their looks. That causes Daria to turn to ''[[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]]'' (who has been ''waiting'' for this day): if she does start to show she cares about her looks a little bit, does this make her a hypocrite and invalidate many of her previous stances? This philosophical question causes physical pain for Quinn, so Daria translates it - but her sister,
Finally, Daria phones and gets good advice from her glass-wearing [[Amy Barksdale|aunt Amy]], who points out that using contact lenses is no vanity, only an option to have a slightly different appearance. And it would also "set your parents back a couple hundred bucks". This sets Daria’s mind to visit an ophthalmologist and purchase them.
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''"No, I don't think anything like that. (peers at Daria again) Where are your glasses?"''
After Jane is "more or less awake", Daria is relieved to find Jane doesn't think she's 'sold out'. She starts to get reactions from colleagues and teachers: Jane thinks she looks cool (but "either [way] works for me"). [[Timothy O'Neill|O’Neill]] and [[Angela Li|
The contact lenses are irritating her eyes, so Daria takes them just as the school day ends, needing help from Jane to walk home as she didn't bring her glasses. On the way home, they run into [[Trent Lane|Trent]], who tells Daria "looks good" - causing her to blush. That night, Daria has a nightmare in which her reflections are warped as long as she wears glasses - when she wears contacts, she looks normal, but then suddenly turns monstrous and distorted.
The next day, with her eyes still sensitive, Daria decides not to put the contacts on... and also not to wear glasses. The resulting lack of vision causes her to keep bumping into colleagues in school. At lunch, a conversation with Kevin, who had decided to start wearing glasses to “be a little smarter” - but to avoid being too smart because "I like having friends", he took the lenses out - makes Jane realize Daria isn't wearing her contacts. She is pleasantly surprised when Daria admits it was out of sheer vanity and starts to tease her, causing Daria flees in self-disgust at being found out.
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