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Some opponents of {cochlear} implants have proposed that people make their own choice when they turn eighteen. Even putting aside the neural issues that make this impractical, it is a flawed proposition. At eighteen, you are choosing not simply between being deaf and being hearing, but between the culture you have known and the life you have not.

( Andrew Solomon )
[ Far from the Tree: Parents, ]
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