Blind Dates

Lisa and Sandy's mother wasn't married. Sometimes she went out on blind dates. Sandy liked to play a make-believe game with the New Boy that she called "blind dates." She would put on a blindfold and walk around the yard with him.

"Here we are at a fancy restaurant," said Sandy. And Lisa took their orders for cake and ice cream. Then Sandy and the New Boy danced while Lisa sang and hummed and made noises like a dance band.

"You're so handsome," said Sandy, as she adjusted her blindfold.

"And you're beautiful," said the New Boy.

Mary laughed. "What a silly game. And I suppose you think everybody's beautiful?"

"No," said the New Boy. "Very few people are really and truly beautiful."

"And how can you tell? You can't see anything," said Mary. As soon as she had said it, she bit her lip and wished she hadn't said anything at all. She felt so sorry for the blind boy.

"You don't have to see people to know that they're beautiful," answered the New Boy. "Take you, for instance, Mary. I know that you're very beautiful."

Mary didn't know what to say. Her mirror told her that she was plain. Even her mother told her that she was plain. But the blind boy called her "beautiful." And he sounded so certain and sincere.

One day, Mary's mother, Mrs. Mahoney, saw Sandy and Lisa and the New Boy playing "blind dates." Mary's mother told the twins, "You shouldn't fool him like that. He doesn't know what's real and what's not. You shouldn't put ideas like that into his head. He's just a little blind boy. It's sad that he's blind. But you shouldn't give him false ideas and false hopes. Sooner or later, he'll find out that it's all make-believe, that everything's all broken and dirty, and that'll hurt him more than anything else."

Sandy and Lisa didn't know what to say. They didn't want to hurt their friend. They just wanted to make him happy like he made them happy. They just enjoyed playing make-believe.

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