Prologue

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Every day, my life was the same boring thing.

Have Gerard wake me up, go to school, hang around his friends because I had none, follow him around like a lost puppy, come home, and sleep.

That's how things had been for eighteen years of my life. Gerard was forced to stick with me because he was the only one around who could or was even willing to communicate with me.

But I'd just graduated high school. Things were going to change.

Sometimes I hated that I was born like this, but Gerard said that it made me special, and that sometimes he wished he was like me.

But it was okay.

I didn't really consider it a handicap anymore. It was a part of me.

My name is Michael James Way, and I am deaf.

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