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She was at the draining board doing scalloped potatoes.

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I reached to draw her robe back over her, and it was then that I glanced at the blind man. What the hell! I flipped the robe open again.

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"Get us a pen and some heavy paper. Go on, bub, get the stuff," he said.

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She's seen something in the paper: HELP WANTED--Reading to Blind Man, and a telephone number. She phoned and went over, was hired on the spot.

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She went in and swallowed all the pills and capsules in the medicine chest and washed them down with a bottle of gin.
Mikka Harden

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The news program ended. I got up and changed the channel. I sat back down on the sofa. I wished my wife hadn't pooped out. Her head lay across the back of the sofa, her mouth open.
Kylie Chaimson

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They talked of things that had happened to them-to them!-these past the years. I waited in vain to here my name on my wife's sweet lips:" And then my dear husband came into my life"-something like that. But I heard nothing of the sort. More talk of Robert.

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She hadn't seen him since she worked for him one summer in Seattle ten years ago.  But she and the blind man had kept in touch.

Maya Peeders

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He didn't have any money either, but she was in love with the guy, and he was in love with her.

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He didn't have any money either, but she was in love with the guy, and he was in love with her.

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James Paradisin

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After they had been inseparable for eight years-my wife's word, inseparable-Beulah's health went into a rapid decline. She died in a Seattle hospital room, the blind man sitting beside the bed holding on to her hand.

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The blind man, an old friend of my wife's, he was on his way to spend the night.

Maya Peeders

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Then I asked if he wanted to smoke some dope with me. I said I'd just rolled a number. I hadn't, but I planned to do so in about two shakes.
Andrea maroo

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Beulah had gone to work for the blind man the summer after my wife had stopped working for him.
Andrea maroo

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I waited in vain to hear my name on my wife's sweet lips
Mikka Harden

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The man she was going to marry at the end of the summer was in officer's training school.
- Lucian Martin

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Anyway, this man who'd first enjoyed her favors, the officer-to-be, he'd been her childhood sweetheart.
- Lucian Martin

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The blind man let go of his suitcase and up came his hand.
Angie Stinnett

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They'd become good friends, my wife and the blind man.
Angie Stinnett

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My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed.

Lexi Feldmann

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Anyway, this man who'd first enjoyed her favors, the Officer-To-Be, he'd been her childhood sweetheart.

Lexi Feldmann

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"Maybe I could take him bowling," I said to my wife.

Lexi Feldmann

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Every night I smoked dope and stayed up as long as I could before I fell asleep.
Raymond Rajala

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Say my life was being threatened by an insane guy who said I had to do it or else.
Raymond Rajala

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Robert, you make yourself comfortable,” she said. “I’m comfortable,” the blind man said. “I want you to feel comfortable in this house,” she said. “I am comfortable,” the blind man said.
Sydney Flock

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Over the years, she put all kinds of stuff on tapes and sent the tapes off lickety-split.
Sydney Flock

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And she told her blind man about it. She told him everything, or so it seemed to me.

Zoe Cook

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We dug in. We ate everything there was to eat on the table. We ate like there was no tomorrow. We didn't talk. We ate. We scarfed.
Zoe Cook

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My wife finally took her eyes off the blind man and looked at me. I had the feeling she didn't like what she saw. I shrugged.
Aryn Faigin

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The blind man said, "My dear, I have two TVs. I have a color set and a black-and-white thing, an old relic. It's funny, but if I turn the TV on, and I'm always turning it on, I turn on the color set. It's funny, don't you think?"
Aryn Faigin

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When I did go to sleep, I had these dreams. Sometimes I'd wake up from one of them, my heart going crazy.
Aryn Faigin

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But we were interrupted, a knock at the door, something, and we didn't ever get back to the tape. Maybe it was just as well. I'd heard all I wanted to.
Aryn Faigin

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This blind man, an old friend of my wife's he ws on his way to spend the night. His wife died.

April Xu

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But instead of dying she got sick. She threw up.

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But instead of dying she got sick. She threw up.

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He said, "I do now, my dear. There's a first time for everything. But I don't feel anything yet."
Neisha Primozic

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"You'll have to forgive me," I said. "But I can't tell you what a cathedral looks like. It just isn't in me to do it. I can't do any more than I've done."
Neisha Primozic

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But I had my eyes closed. I thought I'd keep them that way for a little longer. I thought it was something I ought to do.

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"I guess I don't believe in it. In anything. Sometimes it's hard. You know what I'm saying?"

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"I wasn't enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me."

Taylor Ripp

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"No, I'll stay up with you, bub. If that's alright. I'll stay up until you're ready to turn in. We haven't had a chance to talk."

Casey Mckernan

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"That summer in Seattle she had needed a job. She didn't have any money."

Casey Mckernan

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"My wife took his arm, shut the car door, and, talking all the way, moved him down the drive and then up the steps to the front porch."

Taylor Ripp

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Right then my wife filled me with more detail than I cared to know

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Right then my wife filled me with more detail than I cared to know

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James Paradisin