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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hi Fellow Discussion List Members <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>It has been very quiet here of late, and so read my short paragraph below and share-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Most times, when I meet a new person and they ask me what is it like to be blind, I will say something like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Well… Let me start off with telling you that my story starts out with the fact that I was born with Twenty-twenty vision, and at age fifteen, I was in a car accident and lost all my sight; I cannot even see light. Now, I see just as good out of the back of my head, as I do the front. And what I have learned, is that being blind, not able to use my eyes to do things in life is not so difficult; that most everything can be done non-visually. And that I’ve also learned that the toughest and most frustrating part of being blind is how other people view you, and treat you; they can make it more disheartening and difficult to do what I know I can do. But hey, though I hate being blind, life is to big and beautiful to get hung up in the small things; like being blind.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Respectfully yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Robert Leslie Newman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Omaha, Nebraska <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>