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THE FIRST TASTE

CASS IRVIN
Co-founder and past publisher of The Disability Rag
and presently Executive Director of Access to the Arts, Inc., Louisville, KY

FROM
The Ragged Edge:
The Disability Experience from the Pages
of The Disability Rag
Edited by Barrett Shaw

The very first friend I had after I had polio was the daughter of the woman my family paid to come take care of me. She was my age, and even though she was paid to be my friend, we got to know each other and she taught me a lot. She lived in the real world, and I didn’t.

Every other Saturday, she would come take me out. Sometimes we’d go downtown.

Yellow cabs were roomy in those days. Angela, my wheelchair and I would all fit in the back seat. (There wasn’t any "special transportation for the handicapped" in those days.) It must have been about 1959.

One day we decided we’d go take in a movie at the Mary Anderson. Angela pushed me up next to the ticket window, and went up to the window herself. She asked the man at the window what time the movie started. He told her, and she told me. Then she asked him how much it cost, and he told her and she told me.

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