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Well, I didn't think I would be posting for awhile. But Todd promised to read this one twice, among various other things... so here it goes. I live with a Deaf girl... sort of. She was Deaf all her life, and still is really... anyway, she has a cochlear implant, so she can hear now, more or less, but she still is Deaf. Her name is Aubrey, and in the past month I have learned a great deal about people from her. You see, she reacts to what people say and do far differently than I ever would. This may seem normal, and is on some level, after all people are different and therefore react to things differently. Sometimes however, her reaction is so extremely different. She divulges information from her life to people she hardly knows, things I probably wouldn't even tell my mom right away, because its just that personal. Additionally, she sometimes gets really offended by what someone says or does and when she tells me about it I think, hm, that doesn't seem like a big deal to m...