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<p class="MsoNormal">Robert,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That was very beautiful I am legally blind but it still rings true for me! Tha nk myiu for sharing!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Carlsbad, New Mexico</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:nfb-seniors-discussion@nfbnet.org">RobertLeslie Newman via NFB-Seniors-Discussion</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, March 7, 2021 11:37 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:nfb-seniors-discussion@nfbnet.org">NFB Seniors Division Discussion List</a><br>
<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:robertleslienewman@gmail.com">robertleslienewman@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[NFB-Seniors-Discussion] I hate being blind - Can or do you ever say this?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi Fellow Discussion List Members
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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
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