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March 1995

My Ears Opened, but My Mind Shut

STEP 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

I spent the first nine years of my life not hearing any sounds: I was born deaf. At the age of ten, I was sent to Ottawa for an operation in order to give me some hearing. The doctors opened up my left ear, and I was able to hear. I was one very scared kid when all these new sounds came rushing into my head.

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