<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Thank you all for the kind wishes. It hardly seems possible to us. We are slipping, but not down and out.<div>Barbara<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 14, 2026, at 1:58\u202fPM, Richard Payne via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk@nfbnet.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Aptos">Hello</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Aptos">Jenny Ray called and reminded me to post</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Aptos">,</font></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Aptos">Barbra and Bob Pierce just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary! I meant to post this sooner\u2014here\u2019s to a wonderful marriage and many beautiful memories together. Congratulations to you both!</font></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Aptos">Richard Payne, President</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font size="2" face="Helvetica">National Federation of the Blind of Ohio</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Helvetica">937/829/3368</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><a href="mailto:Rchpay7@gmail.com"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u></u></span><u><span lang="en-us"><font color="#467886" size="2" face="Helvetica">Rchpay7@gmail.com</font></span></u><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><a href="http://www.nfbohio.org/"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u></u></span><u><span lang="en-us"><font color="#467886" size="4" face="Aptos">www.nfbohio.org</font></span></u><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font size="4" face="Aptos">The National Federation of the Blind advances the lives of its members and all blind people in the United States. We know that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, becaus</font><font size="4" face="Aptos">e low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. Our collective power, determination, and diversity achieve the aspirations of all blind people.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></div>
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