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Through the years, the events of my birth story have
continued to help me tell my own story, find my own way
And with each experience I had, I learned something about myself
and my identity in the hearing world and in the deaf world,
a southerner and a New Yorker, an actor and a teacher,
a girl and a woman, a wife and a daughter.
I reached new levels of awareness and acceptance of myself.
As I am. Who I am.
When I look at pictures of myself before the illness, it feels like a different
person, except now I feel like I'm starting to
return more to that person, that child in me.
So now I'm standing before you,
at the beginning of a new part of my life. I don't know what's going to happen,
or who I'm going to be. But I know that all I've been from my birth
to this moment, standing in front of you Has put me
On my path In this world.
I've sometimes wondered who I might have been,
had my birth story been different. Who would I be?
I might have been a neat freak. I might have been really boring.
I might have been really ignorant. I might have been more generous.
I might have been more daring. I might...