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A small childs hand gently poked the face of a very fair sleeping woman with hair that matched the little girls. The eyes of the woman slowly opened to come face to face with the grinning six year old. A giggle escaped the little girl's lips as her hands began moving frantically. Good morning mommy, are we doing school today? What's for breakfast? Are we going to the daycare today? The questions were asked like any other questions a six year old would ask, the only difference was she used her hands instead of her voice. In fact the small girl couldn't speak due to her hearing failing her when she was born. Yes she could make sounds, but she couldn't form those sounds into anything other than that, just sounds. It saddened the woman that her child would never hear the wonderful sounds of the world, but there was nothing to change that so the two lived with it.

After the stream of questions stopped, the woman who was called Abiageal laughed and sat up. She kissed her daughter, who she names Brielle, on the forehead before answering the child. Yes we'll do school today, no we don't have to go to the daycare today, and what do you want for breakfast? She answered the little girl and the waited for her response as she began to put her hearing aids in. She wasn't deaf like her daughter, but she was hard of hearing and had to wear hearing aids in order to hear things. She hadn't always been like that, in fact she didn't start losing her hearing until she was 15. Because of this she could speak perfectly clear and the only thing that would hint to her being hard of hearing would be her hearing aids.

It took the little girl some thought to answer her mother, but after a few seconds she finally did. Ice cream! She signed enthusiastically to her mother with a huge smile on her face. This caused a laugh to escape from her mother as she shook her head.

How about chocolate chip pancakes instead? About asked the girl and she got a not so enthusiastic yes in reply. So her and her daughter made there way to the kitchen.

After awhile she was done cooking and both of the girls sat at the table in their small dining room eating the good. They lived in a very small two bedroom apartment, that was all Abi could afford. Brielle's father was no longer in the picture, he hadn't been since he found out that he got Abi pregnant when they were 16. So they were living off her income alone. They had very difficult times, but they got through it.

They finished breakfast and an alarm on Abi's phone began going off. She signed as she knew what the alarm was for. She got up while turning her alarm off and walked over to her purse. She dug around for a moment before pulling out a small pill bottle. Inside this bottle were her antidepressants which she reluctantly took one. She hated taking them, but she hated even more how she was when she didn't take them.

Once she was done she turned back around to look at her daughter Are you ready to start school? She signed to her and got a yes in reply. She homeschooled Brielle because it was too difficult for her to send her to school and have an interpreter translate everything. She didn't get the attention she needed when Abi had sent her to school in kindergarten so she took matters into her own hands. She was just thankful she worked at a job that allowed her to take Brielle to work with her. It made life that much easier for both of them.