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The laughter of the tribe

August 13, 2015 by Michael Uniacke Leave a Comment

When I was 18, I fell in with a group of young people. Like me, they were deaf. All of us spoke; at that time none of us used sign language. Among these people I quickly found a significant point of difference between people who were deaf and people who were not. It was laughter. […]

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