She lost her eyesight and several years of her youth; it's a safe assumption that many HN readers, my future self included, owe significant chunks of their careers and lives (pardon the redundancy) to those two things.
She - like a mentally-vegetative senior citizen on life-support - reminds us how little the word "alive" really means, by itself.
She - like a mentally-vegetative senior citizen on life-support - reminds us how little the word "alive" really means, by itself.