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Aug 12, 2008
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." --William Butler Yeats
A 101-Year-Old's Literary Lifeline
Stephanie Sandleben, a yoga instructor, just finished Chapter 19 of Tina Brown's biography of Princess Diana. Sara Nolan, a graduate student, is 30 pages into a Rumer Godden novel. Mark Kalinowsky, a real estate broker, has long since stopped reading; he just comes to chat. These three disparate characters are part of a ragtag crew that drops in on 101-year-old Elizabeth Goodyear. A lifelong lover of books, Ms. Goodyear lost her sight about four years ago, but in its place has acquired a roster of readers who stop by regularly, bringing with them dogs, gifts from their international travels and offerings of dark chocolate, the elixir she has savored daily since she was 3. This charming New York Times article shares the story of how strangers in the city rallied around their remarkable neighbor.
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