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Hope usually is a medical hope.
Hope is often at the beginning,
when I talk to young parents-- and we talk to young parents,
they describe hope as "the cure."
So some of the medical advances that have happened have been...
their hope is there.
And then they find out that
that hope doesn't quite get them there.
But the reality of hope for, I think, all of us
is that we redefine it along the way.
NARRATOR: In a series of photographs,
we see several children who are deafblind
participating in a talent show.
Some are in wheelchairs and are assisted by a parent.
One young man plays a guitar and sings.
The more we get to know our children,
maybe we hope they're going to be
great football stars or whatever,
and that hope changes
when you find out they really are classical pianists
or whatever it might be.
Or that with deafblind kids or with deaf kids, even,
that so many parents, during the rubella epidemic,
had the hope of the cure.
And so often, I've seen the lives of children so different
than I knew what their parents thought of their lives
or hoped for their lives,
but they're wonderful lives.
So what is hope?
What is hope for all of us?
I think it has to be redefined often and on the way,
and the more we get to know our children
and the more we get to know each other,
that that changes, and it's okay.
NARRATOR: Fade to black.