When he turned and walked into the living room he knew instantly why it was that he hadn’t wanted to come here, and that he ought to get out as soon as he possibly could. There, staring him in the face, was everything he’d been deprived of for the last five years. William Maxwell
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The story of a man who goes to a house with a girl who is blind. He knows that she cannot see him because he cannot see her, but as soon as they meet she falls in love with him. She begins to cry and the man doesn’t know what to do, as he does not know if she can see him or not. He is afraid that she will curse him for the rest of his life because of his insensitivity, so he gets up and leaves.

Source: The Folded Leaf

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