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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
May I begin with you Barbara? Your name and your family.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Hi, my name is Barbara Canapell [Kanapell]. Was born deaf, in a deaf family. My mother, my father, my uncle, my aunt and another aunt are all deaf. My oldest sister is hearing and she was the only hearing member of the whole family.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Hi, my name is Debby Senestrol [Debbie Sonnenstrahl] and I am a freak because I didn't come from a deaf family. I was born deaf, yes, but all members of my family are hearing people. There's no deafness in my family except me.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
My name is Stephanie Iyayo. Born in a deaf family. Father and mother is deaf. Here's my mother. I have one hearing sister. She's the only one in the family who can hear.

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{SPEAKER name="Sheila Granell"}[Sheila Grenell: ]
My name is Sheila Granell.[Sheila Grenell: ] I was born hearing and I'm still hearing [[laughter]]. And I have deaf parents and two older brothers. [[microphone screech]] Ahh. Two older brothers and there's three kids, we're all hearing.

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{SPEAKER name="Elaine"}
Hi my name is Elaine.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
My name is Elaine, ah, hello! What'd she say? Third generation of a deaf family. My husband is deaf as well as myself as well as my daughter.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
My name is Lily Burke. I come from a deaf family. My mother and father are deaf. My grandmother's hearing but I do have a deaf uncle. My brother and sister are deaf. My children 2 deaf and 2 can hear.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Thank you very much.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Thank you very much

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Thank you very much. [[laughter]] We haven't got our act together but it's a good act. [[laughter]] As these people introduced themselves, you might have gotten a rather unusual and inaccurate picture of the deaf community. As a matter....