7 items in this article 1 item on sale! Illustration: Brian Scagnelli I first reached for the bottle more than two decades ago, around the time I began to hear my own blinks and my eyes started to feel like they’d been dabbed with cotton balls. My optometrist didn’t offer much explanation for these symptoms. Instead, he suggested I squirt a few drops of over-the-counter artificial tears into my eyes if they bothered me and sent me on my way. Ever since, I’ve been plucking a tiny plastic bottle