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How learning a new language helped me to untangle my heritage.
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I never learned my family’s language, but I cherish the snippets I do know.
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Burned out and unfulfilled by my supposedly successful life, I looked for meaning in an…
When an audiologist confirmed that I’d lost a significant portion of my hearing…