While at a party last night, I was talking with an old acquaintance I hadn’t seen over a year or so, having a great chat. A half hour or an hour into the conversation, he saw a before picture and had this sudden look of dawning on his face.
He didn’t realize prior that we hadn’t just met that night, but that he had, in fact, known me for years. Apparently I just wasn’t recognizable because I’d managed to lose a third of my mass in a year and, at least according to him, I don’t look now like someone who had ever been that big.