Different Takes
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Hearing is believing
BY WESTLEY RESENDES ’08 but it was only 15 seconds. Imagine spending the first
nine years of your life in that silence.
Following is a chapel talk delivered on April 17. I was born profoundly deaf—“stone deaf” as
some say. I could not hear a single thing, not even if a
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ello everybody, I would like to start 747 took off right over my head. Even today, when the
with a moment of complete silence. speech processor is not on my head, I cannot hear
Please cover your ears so that you can anything, not even my own voice. However, I do not
hear nothing... think of myself as deaf, as people tend to classify me. I
That may have seemed like a long period of time, have always viewed myself as hearing-impaired. I can
14 ST. GEORGE’S 2008 SUMMER BULLETIN
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