> Review draft, September 7, 2026. These original assets are retained for comparison. The photos need another pass; the revised short-copy candidate is in copies/01-revised-primary-v2.txt. # Four native copy sets for Susan and Tom Prepared September 7, 2026. English / US. Four finished primary texts, four link headlines and eight original square photos. These are test candidates; conversion performance has not been measured. First test recommendation: Set 1 + Photo 01A. Its unusual circle creates a visual question that the copy and article answer. Set 2 + Photo 02A is the strongest relationship-story alternative. These are creative judgments, not performance verdicts. Destination: https://bodycomfortpost.com/i-refused-gabapentin-for-2-years ## Set 1: The circle · 115 words **Primary text** It started with a wrinkle in my left sock that wasn't there. Within a week, my feet were waking me at 2:40 in the morning. My husband thought I should stop looking for answers. I was still sitting on the bathroom floor with my feet on the cold tile. Then a woman named Dolores called me. She told me to get a pen and my hand mirror, and draw a circle around the spot that burned the worst. After six weeks of trying creams, I wanted to know why that little circle mattered. Before another jar goes on the nightstand, read what she told me about where to put it and which balm she meant. **Link headline** She told me to draw a circle on my foot **Photos** - [A · Problem curiosity: one pen circle on the sole](photos/01A-the-pen-circle.png) - [B · Story context: Susan, the pen and the hand mirror](photos/01B-pen-and-hand-mirror.png) **Inspiration** https://app.adspy.com/ads/966614332231125 > My Nerve Pain started with pins & needles, then the burning & tingling kept me up at night… Mary Hilton: 4,866 likes, 3,643 comments, 1,610 shares. Created Jan 30, 2025; last seen May 6, 2025. Historical engagement, not verified sales or current scaling. Type: Story-led native → story/video bridge Actual current destination: https://www.themaryhilton.org/553 Current story/survey bridge toward a video; rendered successfully after a direct request returned 403. **Pattern and reasoning** A small symptom becomes lost sleep; a personal recommendation interrupts the search. The opening starts in Susan's body, just as Mary's does. Compressed the 290-word source to a short teaser. Removed its restored-sensation and independence payoff. The pen circle supplies curiosity from our actual article. The reader gets the exact symptom, the night scene and an unusual, concrete instruction. The article answers who Dolores is, which balm she meant and how Susan chose it. **Photo reasoning** Iterates the unusual-foot/object curiosity seen in Anstrex and the foot creative in AdSpy. The source's baking-soda recipe and disease claim are replaced with the article's actual pen circle. A is the first test recommendation: the circle remains clear at feed size. B adds the person and the article's props. **Review changes** No factual correction was needed on reread. Kept the real left-sock symptom, 2:40 waking time and six-week cream trial. This shorter length is a new test, not a length already validated by the source. **Factual flag** The circle is a detail from the supplied advertising story, not an independently validated treatment technique. No claim that drawing it repairs nerves or produces relief. ## Set 2: He asked for mine · 210 words **Primary text** My husband went from telling me I was "turning into one of those people" to asking if he could use my balm. Two weeks later, he ordered three jars of his own. But before any of that, there were nights when I sat on the bathroom floor with my feet on the cold tile, furious that he thought I should stop looking. He saw the creams. He saw me on the laptop late at night. He thought I was being unreasonable. I wanted to be asleep. I'd tried a magnesium cream, then three more creams from Amazon and the pharmacy. Six weeks later, I was still waking up. Then a woman in a diabetes group called me and told me to get a pen and my hand mirror. Her name was Dolores. She wanted me to draw a circle around the worst spot on my foot. After all those jars, I wasn't ready to believe in another one. I read the balm's page three times, checked the ingredients and looked at the return policy before I ordered. When Tom finally asked what I was using, I showed him the balm. I put Dolores's advice and the balm I chose here. Read them before you buy another cream for the nightstand. **Link headline** He questioned the creams. Then he asked for mine. **Photos** - [A · POV: she offers him the actual balm](photos/02A-he-asked-for-mine.png) - [B · Everyday object: the jar beside his socks](photos/02B-the-shared-jar.png) **Inspiration** https://app.adspy.com/ads/678631288249950 > I Went From Choking Down Pills Just to Be Able to Fall Asleep... To Walking, Standing, and Playing With My Grandchildren Again. Hannah Specter: 8,376 likes, 2,131 comments, 2,199 shares. Created May 15, 2025; last seen Jun 30, 2025. Historical engagement, not verified sales or current scaling. Type: Story-led native → VSL Actual current destination: https://try.meritrelief.com/nerv-vsl Current video sales page, rendered successfully. Current branding/content can differ from the historical campaign. **Pattern and reasoning** Announce a surprising reversal, rewind to the struggle, introduce the recommendation, then let the narrator's skepticism make the choice believable. Hannah's medical before/after becomes Tom's change of attitude. Susan never took the prescribed pills in this story, so that history cannot transfer. The first two lines promise a husband-and-wife reversal the article actually delivers. Concrete failed attempts and the pen/mirror detail give the reader more than a generic relationship teaser. **Photo reasoning** The body structure comes from Hannah. The everyday jar-in-hand visual is separately informed by Vitality's actual balm photograph. Product visibility fits this copy because the opening explicitly says he asked for her balm. A makes the relationship reversal visible. B is a quieter product-visible native alternative; it may attract more product-aware clicks. **Review changes** Removed 'Tom didn't know any of that' because the article does not establish what he knew. Replaced it with the documented exchange: he asked, and Susan showed him the balm. **Factual flag** Tom's interest and later purchase come from the supplied narrative. They are not clinical efficacy evidence. No promised sleep or nerve-recovery result. ## Set 3: One of those people · 358 words **Primary text** I wanted to scream when my husband said I was "turning into one of those people." He meant the creams. He meant the laptop open late at night. He thought I should stop looking and do what my doctor said. This was the man who'd built the ramp on my mother's porch. He'd watched her life get smaller right alongside me. He knew why I was scared when a wrinkle I couldn't find in my left sock turned into burning that woke me at night. And he thought I was being unreasonable. I wasn't enjoying the search. I wanted to be asleep. I'd bought the good shoes. I walked every morning, kept my sugar down, took the B12 and checked my feet with a hand mirror. A magnesium cream from the pharmacy took the edge off for about an hour. Then I tried three more creams from Amazon and the pharmacy, every night for six weeks. I was still sitting on the bathroom floor at two in the morning, with my feet on the cold tile. By the time I found Dolores's comment in a diabetes group, I was ready to give up on finding anything else. I sent her a message. She called me that night and told me to get a pen and my hand mirror. She wanted me to draw a circle around the spot that burned the worst. "That's where the jar goes," she said. "Not your whole foot. The circle." Mine was the ball of my left foot. The jar she meant was Nurovita's Natural Comfort Balm. I read the page three times. I checked the ingredients and the return policy, because I'd already bought enough jars on hope alone. Later, Tom asked what I'd been using. That night, I caught him with his socks off, pressing his thumb into his own toes. He'd had pins and needles he hadn't mentioned to me. The next morning, he asked if he could use some of my balm. I've put Dolores's advice here, along with what I checked before I bought the balm. Read that part before you spend another night searching for another cream. **Link headline** What Dolores told me after six weeks of trying creams **Photos** - [A · POV: feet on the bathroom tile at night](photos/03A-two-am-bathroom.png) - [B · Story: Susan at the bedside](photos/03B-susan-at-the-bedside.png) **Inspiration** https://app.adspy.com/ads/847482081236479 > I wanted to scream at my doctor after what he said about my burning feet. Nerve Pain Diary: 2,188 likes, 3,965 comments, 452 shares. Created Dec 8, 2025; last seen Feb 1, 2026. Historical engagement, not verified sales or current scaling. Type: Story-led conflict native → VSL Actual current destination: https://try.gethirelief.com/get-vsl-drdave-lead1 Current video sales page, successfully rendered and inspected. **Pattern and reasoning** A dismissive remark opens the conflict; concrete daily consequences earn the anger; a specific discovery brings the doubter back into the story. Tom replaces the doctor. Keep the source's conflict-to-vindication progression while removing its conspiracy, medication attacks and unsupported medical outcome. The mother and ramp explain why Susan takes the symptoms seriously. The failed creams explain why another jar needs scrutiny. Dolores's instruction supplies a specific discovery before Tom's hidden symptoms resolve the conflict. **Photo reasoning** The AdSpy source supplies the conflict structure, not a baking-soda photo. The Anstrex older-person-at-home topical-pain scene is the visual analogue. Our photos show the actual night scenes in Susan's story. A has the more ordinary phone-photo feel. B connects more visibly to the woman pictured in the advertorial. **Review changes** Changed 'the whole conversation with Dolores' to 'Dolores's advice': the article gives excerpts, not a transcript. The ending now points to her advice and Susan's buying checks instead of the earlier 'understand what Tom hadn't seen' invitation. **Factual flag** The mother's story is emotional context, not proof that medication causes amputation. Product name is disclosed; nerve repair, fixed relief timelines and medication replacement are excluded. ## Set 4: What he kept quiet · 224 words **Primary text** My husband had pins and needles in his toes. He hadn't said a word to me. He'd had plenty to say about my feet, though. He thought I was being unreasonable. He saw the creams I'd bought and the laptop open late at night. He told me I was "turning into one of those people." I was the one on the bathroom floor at two in the morning, trying to get comfortable on the cold tile. So when Dolores called me after I messaged her about a comment in a diabetes group, I listened. She told me to get a pen and my hand mirror, and circle the spot that burned the worst. Then she told me which balm she used before bed. I checked it for myself. I read the product page three times and looked at the ingredients and the return policy before buying. Later, Tom asked what I'd been using. I showed him the balm. That night, I caught him with his socks off, pressing his thumb into his toes. The next morning, he asked if he could use some of mine. Two weeks later, he ordered his own jars. If someone at home has opinions about your search, this part may sound familiar. Here's what Dolores told me and why, after all those creams, I gave that jar a chance. **Link headline** What my husband hadn't told me about his feet **Photos** - [A · Close story moment: Tom checks his toes](photos/04A-what-he-kept-quiet.png) - [B · Wider POV: the socks he had taken off](photos/04B-his-socks-were-off.png) **Inspiration** https://app.adspy.com/ads/966589135606024 > My husband has been experiencing diabetic neuropathy for several years. Vitality Extracts Essential Oils: 68,586 likes, 18,128 comments, 17,039 shares. Created Feb 11, 2025; last seen Mar 31, 2026. Historical engagement, not verified sales or current scaling. Type: Narrative testimonial → direct product page; not a pure advertorial native Actual current destination: https://www.vitalityextracts.com/products/frankincense-balm Current balm product page. The captured frankincense-body-balm path redirected here successfully. **Pattern and reasoning** A wife introduces her husband's foot problem, recounts a practical balm decision and closes on his response. Susan originally bought for herself, not for Tom. His unmentioned pins and needles create the opening. The source's direct purchase/discount ending becomes an article click, so this is a new funnel adaptation. The husband is now the mystery rather than only the critic. It still lands on the same Dolores discovery and the same later request to use Susan's balm. **Photo reasoning** The source's wife/husband narrative gives the angle. Its product photograph is not reused here: Tom quietly checking his own toes is the scene that makes this opening credible and fits our article. A is the tighter story match. B is an alternate candid framing of the same private behavior. **Review changes** Changed 'I replied to her comment' to 'I messaged her about a comment' to match the article's private contact followed by the phone call. Kept the opening as a flash-forward, then rewound the events. **Factual flag** The article does not diagnose Tom with diabetes and does not establish a clinical result for him. Neither is added. His three-jar order remains a supplied story event.