"There wasn't really anything different, other than I had to help her" by leading her through the homes, Done says. "I was very satisfied. She did great."

Lifsey's boss, Corey Hadley, says that having her with the company for the past year has been a learning experience.

"At first, I thought like probably everyone else did, How is she going to do this if she can't see?" says Hadley, who owns Exit Realty Wasatch. "She's proven to us that she can, and most of her clients don't have any problem with it at all."

Lifsey attributes her success to supportive parents who did all they could to help her have as normal a childhood as possible, and who taught her to be independent. She says her father even helped her learn to ride a bicycle as a child.

"He first started me out on training wheels, and I learned to navigate the bike, and then one day, he took them off and said, 'OK, it's time to fly!"'

She says she eventually learned to ride on neighborhood streets with her sisters by following the sound of cards they would put into the spokes of their bike tires.

"I had become very familiar with the streets by walking them with my friends," she says. "Wherever they would go, I would go."

She has continued to go wherever she has wanted ever since.

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