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“Close your eyes. Now imagine you have to cross a street. You don’t know how far that street is and you don’t know if you’re going straight and you hear cars whizzing back and forth, and you had a horrible accident that landed you in this situation.”
— Ramona Pierson on learning to cross the street as a blind personRamona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing
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“The biggest change for me was looking down at my hands seeing that I’d lost 10 years of my life. I thought that time had stood still for some reason and moved on for family and friends. But when I looked down, I realized that time marched on for me too.”
— Ramona PiersonRamona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing
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“We didn’t have words like crowd-sourcing and radical collaboration when I had my accident. But the concept held true — people working with people to rebuild me; people working with people to re-educate me. I wouldn’t be standing here today if it wasn’t for extreme radical collaboration.”
— Ramona PiersonRamona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing
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