Just Signing Along
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When Jamie Lou was fifteen she decided to take a sign language class as her high school language. She thought it would be cool to sign, and she wanted to learn something besides Spanish or French, which all her friends were doing. She never even dreamed that it could take her far in life; good places and possibly bad. But that's a chance you have to take with every decision, isn't it?
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