Something woke me up, which, as a coda, should have been a signal that something was not right. One of the false assumptions about deaf people is that they’re quiet. No, they have NO regulation of sounds. They are burping and slamming cabinets and banging pots and pans… they are obnoxiously loud! And… you just tune out the sounds of everyday life. But this night, it was three in the morning and something woke me up.
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This week’s podcast: A young woman discovers the truth about the relationship between her deaf parents.
And the only creature in the world that loved me was this stray dog that lived downstairs underneath the stoop. It was a little beagle mutt. And whenever I’d come home it’d come wriggling - wriggling its whole body in happiness to see me. And clouds of dust and fleas coming up…
The dog’s name was Prope Mortuus, which was Latin for nearly dead. Which it was.
