Personal Narrative: A Deaf Event

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A deaf event that I went to this year was to Silent Dinner at Asheville Mall. It was an interesting experience. I went there with a girl from my hall, Lian. It took a little while to get to the mall and we listened to weird Japaneses music and talked all the way about how we were enjoying class. We talked until we got to the mall and then we went into the food court. For a moment we just looked around, but then we saw some people who were singing to each other and when we told them we were here for the deaf dinner, they informed us that we were in the right place. After we got our food, we all sat together and for a while were shy because we did not know the people we were around. I asked Lian what her plans for the summer were and she explained

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