Bad things happen to all good people eventually. This is definitely the case with Ms. Lucy Simpson Nieder. What would you do if you lost the thing you love most in the world? Or worse, if you lost the two things you love most in the world? This is what has happened to Lucy Simpson. Although she would just shrug it off and call it "old age", there is more to it than just that.

There are many fascinating aspects to be found in Lucy Simpson, the most interesting one would have to be her love for art. Lucy collects all kinds of art from all over the world. From oriental rugs, to Pennsylvania Dutch Chests, to personal works, but what makes this love so special is that this love wasn't discovered till Lucy was 70 years old. One day Betty, a friend of Lucy's asked her to accompany her to one of her classes. It just happened to be art, but from that day forward Lucy has had a fascination with all kinds of art. Betty soon dropped her art class, but Lucy continued to attend. For sixteen years after her first encounter with art, she still can't get enough. Lucy has taken numerous art classes at the University of Nevada, Reno and

iends and eventually became the head of the Psychiatric Department there. Now, for a woman in 1946 to be the head of a Department was uncommon, but for a woman to be the director of a Psychiatric ward was extremely rare, at best. Lucy was one of the first women ever to land a job like that. The food there was "a can and a spoon" quality and Lucy started to develop a strong sense of wanderlust. Eventually she had enough of it and she quit the job to look somewhere new. But soon after her resignation, her father died. So Lucy thought it best if she went home to New Jersey to help her mother with her job and around the house. About six months after her father passed away she was talking to a friend who she had met while in West Virginia, and as it would turn out she was the head of all occupational therapy on the West Coast. Lucy's friend soon found Lucy a job in Reno at a local hospital. Lucy eagerly accepted the job as nurse and came to Reno for her first time. She an!

being a senior citizen, she has never once paid for nor received any credits for the classes taken. She did it for the pleasure she got from it. What makes her love for artwork even more unique is that Lucy has macular degene!

ration, a rare eye condition where all detail is blurred beyond recognition. There is no known cure or cause. Ms. Simpson, as she likes to be called, has lived with this disease for about twenty years now and her eyesight continues to deteriorate, but her love for art has never swayed and only grown stronger. Art isn't the only thing being affected by her eye condition though; her love for reading has also suffered greatly. Since Lucy was a child she h

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