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BLIND MAN
When that March 28th wind-an4-hail storm wrecked his roof, the insurance company didn't tell him the repairs would be, on the house So Curtis Day of 11-18 Small in Grand Singe Prairie gets on the house to put down new shingles. ;e insurance company paid only part of the cost, Day says someone fas to make u the difference, so it looks like he's elected. the fact that Day says M hets been blind for all his 38 years isn't stopping him. And as any camera can plainly see, Mr. Day weilds an accurate hammer. His thumb was mashed only on be se a bljnd person who knows how to hammer doesn' t miss the mark any more than a sighted person. There is nothing spectacular or amazing about his roofing the house, four; Day claims, because his other senses have been sharpened by his blindness. If doing this himself proves anything, he says, itgs that blind persons can do more things and do them better, can produce more because they - work twide as hard and are more dependable than those who can see.
Mrs. Day shows the baseball-sized hail which caused all
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a blind man laying new shingles on his Grand Prairie home.
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