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the kitchen while sheworked,keeping her close,the stove's heat encircling her,pressing against her,taking her breathalmost with its expansion through the room.Then her father might come in later,pick her up or20 take her by the hand,and quickly they would go out of the house and up to the store or maybe tothe depot to watch the afternoon train arrive and depart northward.He would sit with her,hold herhand,smoke his cigar,the smell and smoke surrounding them in a masculine world of men loadingand unloading,of coals and iron rails and more smoke and dreams of departure,the two of themheaded away.  \n25  \nAnd then they did head away,but not before more silences and anger that she felt kept herparents from listening to each other,each made deaf in his or her own way.But the day arrivedwhen,her suitcases packed,she and her father boarded the train for Talladega.After three days,heleft her there,settled,as best she could be at the age of twelve,in her dorm room and in school forthe deaf and blind.  \n30She'd loved it there,had learned the alphabet on her fingers and how to sign,and how toread lips.She'd continued,finally,with her regular schooling too,and taken art,and began to paintwith oils.The other children there were like her,lived in her world of silence that was no longerquiet but filled with the voices of fingers and hands flying—thin fingers,long fingers,the beautifulhands of boys.It was wonderful to be able to give shape to words.She knew that her speaking35 voice was something she'd had less and less control over,and so seldom used it.Now words camethrough her fingers,the muscles there growing stronger and more sure,giving her a voice again,a voice that wanted to shout,or even sing.  \nHer mother wouldn't visit,but wrote desperate letters about home,about missing her andwanting her there,those cursive words on the page like pieces of string tying and knotting her40 emotions.During her trips home she taught her father to speak to her,but for the longest time 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