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“I have this fear. I am so myopic that, without glasses, the hand I see at the end of my arm is blurred. What if I were to find myself one day in some bad place--in a prison or some kind of detention camp, say, or forced to flee for my life--and then somehow I lost my glasses, or they got broken or taken away? What then?”

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Book:The Vulnerables
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