"And
did I tell you my old blind Aunt Annie--Orville's mother--is getting married?!! That's the real surprise of the family --
Nov. 1, same as Dorothy Snare. There's
hope for anyone, I'm sure. But I must go
to bed--my eyelids are drooping."
--A
second letter from my mother, Winfield, Kans., to my father, Protection, Kans.,
Wednesday, October 22, 1947, late evening. My mother's great aunt Annie was 68
when she married for the second time. His first husband had died in 1934. Annie
had lost her eyesight to glaucoma. In a
ceremony performed by my grandfather, Annie married her braille teacher (about
66 years old) who was also blind. They
lived in an apartment at the farm of her son, Orville.
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