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2005: Blinders

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I probably was near-sighted from an early age because I recognize people by their voices, gestures, movements, not by their faces. I never saw the sparrows in the elms or the little dipper or read the chalk writing on the blackboards until at twelve, I got my eyes tested—20–200, serious astigmatism, and a rare hyper-sensitivity to color.

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Richardson, L. (2016). 2005: Blinders. In: Seven Minutes from Home. Personal/Public Scholarship. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-543-2_24

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