[Maybe for some people, even your closest friends wouldn't be immediately recognizable to you if you added nearly 30 years to their faces. Maybe if there were enough recognizable features, the shape of the face generally the same, enough to at least catch onto a memory, most could still figure it out after a bit.
But Beverly had seen a clear vision of all of themselves in the future, had been lost in the sight of their adult selves for what felt like hours and hours.
(or days and days, it's hard to remember sometimes how long it felt like, but the images are still the same, and she could never get a straight answer out of the others how long she'd spent floating, because truthfully none of them knew)
In contrast to everyone else, she saw only one clear image of Stan. She only needed the one for it to be burned deep into her head, even after she's tried to bury it enough that it's not all she saw whenever she looked at him. It's still there. She can feel it ache the second she catches the same face staring at his phone in the diner she only ducked in to dodge the bitter cold outside for a few minutes.
So now there's just a teenage girl staring quietly, almost fearfully at an adult man in the diner. That's probably normal.]
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But Beverly had seen a clear vision of all of themselves in the future, had been lost in the sight of their adult selves for what felt like hours and hours.
(or days and days, it's hard to remember sometimes how long it felt like, but the images are still the same, and she could never get a straight answer out of the others how long she'd spent floating, because truthfully none of them knew)
In contrast to everyone else, she saw only one clear image of Stan. She only needed the one for it to be burned deep into her head, even after she's tried to bury it enough that it's not all she saw whenever she looked at him. It's still there. She can feel it ache the second she catches the same face staring at his phone in the diner she only ducked in to dodge the bitter cold outside for a few minutes.
So now there's just a teenage girl staring quietly, almost fearfully at an adult man in the diner. That's probably normal.]