His hardest adjustment has been the loss of eyesight, "not because I'm blind but because I had to adapt my entire life around that, " Wiens.

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Even though I'm close to legally blind, I don't have to obscure my piercing blue eyes with glasses, because I wear contact lenses.

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I'm not talking about blind optimism here-the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it.

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"I think it would be meaningless if I can achieve as much as I can achieve and as much as I hope to achieve and I'm not able to affect other blind people, " he says.

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I'm also the author of "DOUBLE BLIND", a thriller.

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I'm also the author of the thrillers "DOUBLE BLIND" and "ENGAGED TO KILL".

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I'm not talking about an idle hope that's little more than blind optimism or willful ignorance of the problems we face.

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I'm also the author of the thrillers "THE DARK SAINT, " "DOUBLE BLIND" and "ENGAGED TO KILL".

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