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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock >chs Staff Writer
“When something like this happens, you know what you want to say but you just don’t have the words. For me. there aren't any words. It’s so wonderful to be able to read a newspaper for the first time in my life."
Harry Russell Smoot is a ^appy man. He has been guen the gift of sight, a Christmas present from the Rappahannock Lions Club and an anohymous benefactor.
Harry has been legally blind for all of his life. At the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in Staunton, he was taught braille, a system of writing for the blind that is made up of raised dots. For the past 50 years, Harry has used his fingertips to “read" the few books and magazines available in braille. Doctors told him repeatedly that the
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