Misspelling of the maiden name of Wife One. The date you moved from London to New York: off by one year. And, because it was the season, best wishes for the new year. After, only your email with a list of books you thought might be helpful to me in my research. This was the last thing you and I talked about while you were still alive.

In other words, the women's minds, forced to take in so much horror and unable to take more, had managed to turn out the lights. If the women were telling the truthand there were some who doubted this, who thought the women might be malingering because they wanted attention or were hoping to collect disabilitythe only explanation was psychosomatic blindness. Further tests showed that their brains were normal as well. The doctors who examined the womenabout a hundred and fifty in allfound that their eyes were normal. Others suffered from blurred or partial vision, their eyes troubled by shadows and pains. She was not the only one who appeared to have cried herself blind. One woman, who never again saw her husband and three children after soldiers came and took them away, said that she had lost her sight after having cried every day for four years. Most had seen family members murdered in front of them. Many of the women had been raped or tortured or otherwise brutalized. Before fleeing their homeland, they had witnessed the atrocities for which the Khmer Rouge, which had been in power from 1975 to 1979, was well known. During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see.

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