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She wanted to be a dancer but had thin ankles and was blind in her left eye. her best friend was blind in his right eye but this is not why they were friends that eye went blind after they met not as a direct result of their meeting, of course a rod went through it he should have died it flew off a truck driven by a guy who could see out of both eyes you've got to be able to see out of both eyes to be a truck driver though they require little else she wishes she was there when it happened not the part about the rod afterward, his first night of being blind in one eye she loved him more than she loved dancing but two years and nine months later he died from a brain aneurysm a complication from the accident, they said but for two years, he was her left eye. and she, his right.