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| | A World of Their Own (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | The words "bond" and "culture" say a lot; in effect, Sharon and Candy are a little like immigrant parents who, with a huge and dominant and somewhat alien culture just outside their door, want to ensure that their children will share their heritage, their culture, their life experience. |
 | | Which is to say, she was raised to function in the hearing world as best she could, without exposure to sign language or to other deaf people, except her mother. |
 | | The community of "little people," which has its own association, its own Web site, a strong tradition in Hollywood, and a powerful fellowship, has been left contemplating its children destroyed, its numbers dwindling, its existing members consigned to a narrowing life of freakishness and isolation. |
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