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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: escalators
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Date: 4 Oct 90 19:08:34 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

-> In a message to Henry Kasten <09-29-90 15:09> Darrell Shandrow wrote:
->
-> DS> Guess I blew this one.  I was just going on what several
-> DS> people have
-> DS> tried to convince me to get a dog.  Believe it or not, many
-> DS> sighted
-> DS> people can't belieeve that I can travel with just a long
-> DS> white cane,
-> DS> they automatically can't immagine why I travel around
-> DS> without a dog.

     Well, do what you're comfortable with and not what's expected.  It
won't matter to the sighted anyway.  I was walking down my street towards
home and overheard two people asking themselves whether I was a "friend" of
theirs.  One said to the other, "No, he can't be, he has a dog."

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