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The National Eye Institute calls this process prematurity, or retinopathy. It is a condition that often strikes premature babies that weigh in below 3 pounds. So many blind people would have been struck with this condition as babies. It was in 1942 that the condition was initially identified, a discovery that would affect Wonder just eight years later when he was born. While many people would lament this debilitation, Wonder believed that he had been fortunate in this situation.
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