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Choose Your Own Low-Vision Dating Adventure (11)

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“Actually,” you say, and stop. Your throat feels thick, your voice too high. “I probably should have told you. I can’t read the menu.”

She says nothing, but you can feel the bewilderment rolling off of her.

“I mean, I can read. I learned how to. I have a master’s in English. It’s just, I can’t read now. Because — ” you pause, because this is the tough part, and there’s no good way to say it — “I’m going blind.”

“Oh,” she says. There’s a depth to it, a swimming pool full of meaning. You want to go drown yourself in it.

“I’m sorry,” she says. “That must be — I mean, it’s got to be really hard.”

“It’s okay,” you say. “I mean, it’s not, but I’m fine, you know?”

There’s a pause so wide, Evel Knieval would be hard-pressed to clear it.

Finally, she says, “So, about the menu. Do you — need help reading it?”

You decide to let her help you with the menu.
You don’t want to accept her help with the menu.

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