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shapes and light

Print | Comments () Posted by Yoon S. Byun January 28, 2008 12:00 AM

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"You sure you aren't with the CIA? They've already got all those pictures," joked Salim. I noticed him when I was setting up at the Haley House for a picture. He walked in with his walking stick - he's legally blind. He has been for the past three years and I can't recall what had caused it.

I enjoy meeting people who try to make a difference in their own community. Salim is from Roxbury, born and raised, and he provides free drumming lessons to the youth every Saturday.

As a bus passed in the distance Salim told me he could see it. He could see the shapes and brightness. He just couldn't see in the conventional way we do...

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