"I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people"
"And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me."
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Source: Dodie Smith (2012). “The Town in Bloom”, p.199, Hachette UK
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