EFTA02651166.pdf

From: paul krassner MIIIIII Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 3:59 PM To: Jeffrey E. Subject: Fwd. Bringing the Invisible to =ife For many, writing a book is a "bucket =ist" item -- something you want to do while you're still alive to do .t. For a Dorset, England woman named Trish Vickers, that was certainly =rue. In 2010 or 2011, Vickers -- then age 59 -- decided to pick up a =en and paper and put words to page, much like other aspiring =riters would. But Vickers' story wasn't the same as others. First, she =efused to type her story -- she wanted to write her book by hand. =nd second, she was blind; she lost her sight to diabetes a few years =arlier. But Vickers was dedicated to her =ream. As seen below, she used a neat, self-made contraption -- paper =ined with hand-placed rubber bands -- to keep her pen in place and her =entences from meandering off the =age. That solution, though, was not nearly =nough for Vickers to finish her story. For her to reach that goal, the =olice had to get involved. Vickers' =rocess was straightforward: she'd write and, once a week, her son Simon =ould come over to read the story back to her. One day in 2011, Simon =howed up, expecting to read 26 new pages that his mother had written. =ut when he arrived, what he saw was nothing -- the pages were blank. =rish Vickers didn't know it at the time, but the pen she had been using =ad run out of ink. And when she found out, she was devastated. Not knowing what else to do, she and Simon =ailed the police. To the Vickers's surprise, officers at Dorset HQ =olunteered to work during their breaks and free time, hoping to use =heir forensic tools to help. And, five months later, the =olice reported back with success: they recovered the =ever-written words. Vickers told a local =ewspaper that the pen she used to write the pages -- even =hough there was no ink left in it -- left behind a series of =ndentations: "I think they used a combination of various lights at =ifferent angles to see if they could get the impression made by my =en." Vickers continued writing, =uthoring a total of 110,000 words. In early 2017, now suffering from a =erminal case of cancer, she was able to find a publisher to turn her =anuscript into a printed-and-bound book. On March 9, 2017, her =ublisher, Magic Oxygen, delivered the first edition of the book, "Grannifer's Legacy." Ms. =ickers passed away that very same =ay. EFTA_R1_01892392 EFTA02651166