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The Cyborg, The Scientist, and the Death of Silence

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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I Got Hearing Aids, and I Can't See My Lips Move

"I realized how much without even realizing it, I had come to rely on being able to see somebody's face," she says. "The first day he got them, everything was so loud in ways good and bad." She remembers the first time she walked into Starbucks with hearing aids: 'I hadn't heard the coffee grinders for years'

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