TEXAS: Dark Victory

Next to the last thing that Anita Blair ever saw was the speedometer on her car, one spring night near El Paso 16 years ago. It read 70. She looked over her shoulder; a split second later the car smashed into a stalled truck. When Anita got out of the hospital, she was blind.

A friendly businessman sent her to the Seeing Eye, Inc. in Morristown, N.J. Anita went back to Texas with Fawn, a female German shepherd dog. In four years, Anita earned a B.A. degree at the Texas College of Mines & Metallurgy.

Anita lectured on traffic safety to...

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