Fanny Crosby: What She Gained By Being Blind
12/30/24 • 12 min
For our series "An Army of Normal Dead Folks", Larry Reed tells the story of Fanny Crosby, who became blind and yet still holds the records for the most number of songs written & most number of Presidents met.
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For our series "An Army of Normal Dead Folks", Larry Reed tells the story of Fanny Crosby, who became blind and yet still holds the records for the most number of songs written & most number of Presidents met.
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An Army of Normal Folks - Fanny Crosby: What She Gained By Being Blind
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From the age of six months. As a baby, she was blinded in both eyes. She never saw anything. And you know, during her lifetime, so many people would say, even after she became so famous for the hymns she was writing, they would say things like, oh, miss Crosby, so sorry for your handicap. It must be awful to have dealt with this for so long, things like that that people would naturally say, And her response every time
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