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Blind man sees bright future -- with help: Insight Enterprises has helped about 18,000 disabled Peninsula residents live and work on their own in the last 20 years.

Byline: Lisa Finneran

Oct. 10--NEWPORT NEWS -- Andre Tynes knows there's nothing he can't do.

"I just may have to do it a little differently," said Tynes, who was in his 30s when meningitis robbed him of his vision.

But it wasn't always that way.

Tynes was living and working in Maryland in 1998 when he came down with the infection in his brain that damaged the nerves responsible for sight. His vision disappeared slowly over a month until all he could see was shadows.

"I never knew a blind person until me," said Tynes, now 41. "I was really, really depressed in the beginning. I had lost all of my confidence."

Unable to live on his own in Maryland, ...

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