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Transcription: [00:12:11]
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{SPEAKER name="Unknown 1"}
Thank you

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{SPEAKER name="Lily Burke"}

What am I supposed to do bow?
Am I supposed to Bow?

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{SPEAKER name="Unknown 1"}
I think you can ignore them.
Lily, did you have something you wanted to add?

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{SPEAKER name="Lily Burke"}
All my life, I had no problems communicating at my home because my family was all deaf as I said before and we'd just all talk all my life.

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Just signing all the time.
My grandmother can speak. She knows my voice so I can talk back to her

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and in school, until I got married.

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My first husbands family was deaf, no problems.

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Then my second husband his family was all hearing.

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And I joined a hearing family, it was very interesting. Communication was different.

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My mother in law speaks very clearly.

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And later on, a few years later I realized she refused to learn signs.

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She thought signs were terrible.

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And I became very impatient as I grew older. Talking to her, and I just got bored and tired of it.

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So, as my daughter was growing up, she would be interpreting for us. My mother in law speaks and so my daughter would sign and be our in between.

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And then I met a lot of frustrations communicating with them.

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My mother in law really didn't understand how we felt.

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The family would come and they'd be talking important and I'd be looking around and I didn't have any idea what they were saying so I would have to ask my daughter to interpret.
They'd never really shared with us, they didn't realize my family I had no problems with that.

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I have four children, 2 deaf and 2 hearing.

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The two hearing grew up signing.
My older boy he's - he's sloppily signs but you know how boys are.

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My last girl, she signs sloppy but her signs now she's good, no problems at home.

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But one time on Thanksgiving Day at night, the whole family got together and I was looking around,
and we were all sharing communication and it was beautiful.

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{SPEAKER name="Unknown 1"}
Thank you.

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Stephie? You have a hearing sister, right?

Transcription Notes:
Not sure who the interviewer is, labeled her as "Unknown 1"