I never imagined being a centerfold in a women’s magazine, but…
On a New Year’s Eve afternoon in the mid-1980s, I was lying on my twin bed in my shoe-box sized New York City apartment beginning to read Stephen King’s book Firestarter (New American Library, 1981). I had ordered the book in braille through the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (1). Unlike the book’s print version which I could easily hold in one hand, the braille version consisted of six bulky volumes, which combined probably weighed nine or ten…..