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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
It was very active children events like Easter socials, Christmas socials, Halloween, and so forth.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
So we decided to do some traveling, and we would stop at each deaf club. I, I might have felt, felt a little strange for the first few minutes. Introduce myself from Baltimore and they say "Oh yeah I know this person in Baltimore" and then we'd just start talking as if we had known them for months and months.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
It was a very, it's always a very warm feeling.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
How did you feel as a hearing person coming into a deaf club? Did people kinda look at you funny as a hearing person? Jan's asking Steve.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
No, not at all. When I first started learning sign language and becoming involved with deaf friends, everybody was very patient with my very limited skill in speaking sign language. They really went out of their way to help me, teach me new signs, and make me feel welcome.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
If you uh, go into the club, people are very friendly. The bartenders are great. Uh, to say, same as visiting a deaf person's home. The hospitality is quote: typical old southern hospitality.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Uh, you're invited to sit down. "Can I get you something to drink? Uh would you like some cake? Some coffee?" Something like this. They're very friendly and warm people.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And as a hearing person, there wasn't any uh, feeling that I felt, any sort of isolation, because I was perfectly welcome, and they were, seemed grateful and appreciative that I was trying to learn their sign language since they couldn't learn to speak my language.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I have another thing Lily sang. You know the meanings are very important clubs. Making plans for the next events. You know, we have elections for officers. Meetings like that, and