"For being blind," she said in a smoldering voice. "For being cheated. For being helpless... They should have killed me when I was born. Do you know what it's like to be blind... to receive life secondhand? To be dependent, begging, crippled? 'Bring them down to your level,' I told my secret life. 'If you're blind make them blinder. If you're helpless, cripple them. Pay them back... all of them."