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Life As it Is

There is a story about a blind and deaf man, both of whom visited a renowned doctor, an ear and throat specialist, in the hope that one might recover his hearing and the other his eyesight. The physician cured them both. The blind could now see and the deaf could now hear.  Happy, both patients left. However the next week they returned. “We cannot take it any longer!” "What is the matter?” asked the doctor. Said the man who was formerly blind, “I cannot endure it. All these years I have never been able to see my wife but now that I do, I realize how ugly she is. I always imagined she was beautiful but now I discover she is so homely that I’m disappointed. I cannot bear to look at her.” And the formerly deaf man explained, “For over 30 years I have never heard my wife’s voice and now I hear her all time. I just cannot escape her constant complaints, incessant nagging, and unending criticism. I cannot bear it.” Smiling, the physician asked the first, “So you want me to re...