Managing despite difficulties

Li Zhen, 55, Braille editor at the China Braille Press

I've believed that my marriage was predestined. I am blind and my husband is paralyzed from the waist down. Moreover, he is taciturn. If we had met on a blind date, we probably wouldn't have met a second time.

He got to know me through a radio program. I was among a small number of visually impaired people who made it to college in the late 1980s. As a result, I was invited onto a local radio program to talk about the experience.