Facial Blindness and What that Means

You may be surprised how much you recognize.

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First let me tell you a ghost story:

Having finished work and a few errands quite late, a man is walking home on a summer’s night. It’s warm enough that he doesn’t need his coat and still light enough that he decides to take a detour through a local park and enjoy the scenery. As dusk falls he approaches a stream which transects his footpath. The area is well planted with flowers, shrubbery and just on the other side of the water over the bridge a weeping willow whose leaves trail down to brush the railing. The lightning bugs are just coming out and flitting around him and he notices that, well represented as the botany may be there are no irises.

At first he doesn’t see her. But when he takes his first step onto the bridge he notices the elegant figure of a young woman leaning her body against the railing of the bridge. Long strands of shimmering black hair fall before her face, but she’s turned away from him just slightly. He’s a bit surprised as he had no idea she was there before he set foot on the bridge, but as she is so still he imagines the tranquillity of her figure is what made her blend into this natural world of twilight.

He moves slowly forward hoping not to disturb her as he passes. The water is flowing beneath them…