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Olivia Allen-Price: I moved to San Francisco in the summer of 2013 with a giant patch the size of a maxi pad covering my left eye.
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Olivia Allen-Price: Just a week before my move, I had eye surgery to repair a partially detached retina, a condition that could have left me blind. The first month or so after surgery was tough. Anytime my pulse got a little elevated, I would feel it pounding in my eye. And so my first month in San Francisco was profoundly dark and lonely. I spent most of it lying in bed, listening to audiobooks in a darkened room…