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I don’t know why that came as a shock to me, seeing as I had moved hereto escape the harsh winters in the northeast and to revel in the warmth of the southwest. I guess up until then I just had never really experienced hot! But as one triple digit day followed the next that first summer, I bemoaned the fact that I couldn’t—wouldn’t—wear shorts to help me deal with the heat.  \nSilly as it sounds, I continued wearing full length heavy slacks to mask my artificial right leg and deformed, brace-encased left leg to discourage what I believed would be the unwanted stares of strangers. I hid inside my burdensome layer of clothes, all the while praying for the courage to endure. Little did I know that the answer to that prayer would come in the form of a tiny, twisted lady named Clarabelle Sadler.  \nI heard of Clarabelle before actually meeting her. I’d found a small church where I felt comfortable and formally joined on Labor Day weekend. The service was followed by a potluck lunch in the parish hall.  \n“Where’s Clarabelle?” I heard more than one person ask.  \n“I think she’s visiting her cousin,” someone volunteered.  \n“Have you met Clarabelle yet?” asked the lady behind me in the food line.  \n“I don’t think so,” I replied.“I’ve met so many people that I can’t say for sure.”  \n“You’d remember if you had,” the woman assured me.“Hopefully she’ll be back next week. You’ll love her! She’s quite a character.”  \n‘Character’ didn’t adequately describe the woman I met the following Sunday as she awkwardly walked behind the child-sized wheelchair she pushed up the center aisle. She stopped at each pew, smiling and waving at everyone. Clarabelle stood no higher than my shoulder. Her limbs and joints seemed frozen at impossible angles, a lifelong effect of cerebral palsy. When she reached my pew, the woman beside me introduced us.  \nOther than Clarabelle’s initial “hello,” I couldn’t understand a word of the garbled sentence that followed, which she punctuated with a hearty laugh.  \nMy pew mate laughed too.“Clarabelle says ‘welcome to the sweatbox.’ She said she’d be glad to race you after the service.”  \nClarabelle and I began to grow a friendship that fall. It took several weeks for me to “tune in” to her speech, but as time passed I no longer needed an interpreter.  \n“I know I don’t talk so good,” she told me early on.“If you don’t understand something I say, just ask me to repeat it.”  \nClarabelle’s obvious physical challenges made mine pale by comparison. The more I learned about her, the more my admiration for her grew. She lived quite close to me, and soon I was visiting her at the home her parents had left to her, where she now lived alone. What a life she’d carved for herself!  \nAn only child, Clarabelle was taught independence at an early age. Since mainstreaming of handicapped children into the public schools had not yet occurred, she attended the Eloise Japhet School for Crippled Children in San Antonio. Career opportunities were limited for young physically challenged people before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. After graduation, many simply lived at home to be cared for by family. Others were institutionalized.  \nNot Clarabelle! She held onto her quest for independence by establishing her own greeting card sales business which she ran from her home. I’m sure my jaw dropped as she told me how she approached businesses to establish her clientele.By the time I met her, she had amassed an impressive list.  \nFall was her busy season, when she got holiday card orders and engraving instructions from her clients, prepared and forwarded those to her suppliers, and then personally delivered the cards once they arrived. I accompanied her on one such trip (riding with Clarabelle driving was an adventure in itself!) .  \nHer total lack of self-consciousness among these business professionals was awe-inspiring.She accepted herse","cbCaiv3poq6uEfHg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv3poq6uEfHg","pdf",197669,"English","# Summers in Texas\n## Hidden identity in the heat\n# Meeting Clarabelle\n## Church, potluck, and first impressions\n# Friendship and independence\n## Greeting card business and daily routines\n# Confronting staring\n## Shorts, humor, and a new mindset","[{\"question\":\"Why does the narrator initially avoid wearing shorts in Texas?\",\"answer\":\"She feels unprepared for attention and believes her prosthesis and brace-encased left leg will draw unwanted stares. 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