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I. What I Did For my deafness simulation, since I was home for the weekend, I decided to go to the bowling alley with three of my friends, Nathan, Gabby, and Sierra. This is a common thing we do since it's inexpensive and one of the few activities in public we can do in a small town. I told my friends that I was going to be doing a deafness simulation and they were more than willing to help me with my assignment. My friend Nathan knows some basic sign language because he took a class on it when he was in middle school so we could hold a basic conversation and he could help translate some things for me if he needed to.
II. My Experience My experience started with my friends picking me up from my house, it was weird not being able to hear

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