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Among the issues of aging—and we're all living longer, on average, than our grandparents—is the loss of mobility. Not only physical mobility, as in climbing stairs, walking, etc.; but mobility as in driving a car.
An eye doctor appointment soon proved him right. Fixing it demanded eye surgery; i.e., replacing the cloudy live lens with a clear, synthetic one. Sounds scary; but in skilled hands it's a fairly simple and fast operation. Ten years later, the same symptoms appeared in my left eye. Soon my fixed right eye saw better than its partner. Now the problem was less about glare and more about reading faraway road signs. Again Dr. Rogers came to the rescue. Good thing, too, for around that time my spouse of 50-plus years took a bad stair tumble, After which, with other complications and falls, she never drove again.
Before long he was driving a streetcar, and she was a telegrapher for tea baron Sir Thomas Lipton at the famed Biltmore Hotel In 1927, as soon as Brett and she could afford it, they got married and bought one of Henry's autos.
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