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The stories of patients [1] appear in the international scientific press, whether written by doctors themselves affected by the disease, directly by patients, or transcribed by journalists, anthropologists, or sociologists. Having described his experience of blindness, his childhood years, his adolescence, his denial of the difficulties he faced in achieving his goal to become a teacher, followed by his outlook on reality and his years of visual delight, in part eight, Jean-Paul Channel evokes the painful loss of precious baggage.