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[Barbara HAMMEL]

Eve, you need to get a medicalert bracelet that says you are allergic to penicillin. There is no excuse for them to overlook that in your records.
Barbara

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> On Aug 14, 2015, at 22:07, Debby Phillips via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> One of my favorite authors (especially when I was younger but still I like her) is Beverly Butler.  Beverly may not be alive anymore, not sure.  She is a blind author.  She has written a couple of books where her main character was blind, Light A Single Candle and Gift of Gold, I think.  She has written that other books with sighted characters, but her descriptions are mostly non-visual.  (I believe she was blind from birth).  I never felt like I was missing anything, because her descriptions are so very clear.  I can't write visually because I don't "know" what I'm writing about.  I once wrote a story for an English class with an apple-cheeked woman.  I knew it meant that she had red cheeks.  But my teacher said that unless I really "knew" what an apple-cheeked woman was like, I shouldn't write that way.  If I write about a sunny day, with the sun shining warmly down like a smile, I can relate to that.  But if I write: "The day was one of those days when the sky was as blue as forever" I would just be writing words from "pictures" in my mind, but I don't know what it really means.  (And yet in a way Can do.  I don't exactly know how to explain that.  Oh well.    Debby
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