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How long the books sat on the shelf in the library is unknown.   Actually, no one really remembers how they came to be there. The pages were yellowed and the smell was …well, the smell of old books. But no one could throw them away. They were valuable. They were the Bible….in braille. The librarian had a heavy heart as she began to give away the books in the Library. You see, the church decided to close the library and use the room for offices. With internet and kindle, google and social media, the library was rarely used anymore. She asked us if we could use some of the books in Africa.   Of course, here they would be treasures. What about this braille New Testament? Why not? We might be able to find someone who could use it. That was about 6 years ago. No one can throw away a Bible so we kept the four volumes in a trunk. We came across them during a cleaning spree and I remembered a friend we had met about 10 years ago who was blind. Patrick is the younger brother to a