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Excerpt from A Friend in the Dark: The Story of a "Seeing Eye" Dog
Buddy had come with me from Switzerland where I had gone to get her. She was an educated guide and could take me safely about, despite the fact that I was blind. It was my hope that a school for dog guides could be established in the United States and that some day hundreds of blind people would have them. Conditions vastly more complex and more dangerous ln America than in Europe made any such idea doubtful. Even though several thousand such dogs had been developed for the blind of Germany they said it probably wouldn't be possible in the United States.
So when Buddy and I faced the roar of traffic in West Street that day eight years ago we had a tremendous responsibility. It was with considerable trembling that I gave the command Forward. But when we stepped off the curb it seemed to me that Buddy's step was more sure than it had ever been. Trucks rumbled in front and be hind within a few inches of us. Yet Buddy was as calm as if she were at home in her quiet little Swiss village.
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