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Yeah, I do hear, but not a 100%.

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I hear some things and I used to try to call sometimes, but I don't do that anymore. It's getting less and less. I should have an amplifier in my ear.

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–You would always pretend that you didn't hear anything so that you didn't have to call.

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–My mom sometimes asked me if I could call someone for her and I hated that.

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I always tried my hardest. But they misunderstood me and I misunderstood them. I would tell my mom what had been said...

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...and then it ended up being different. Well, I just stopped doing that. –No, you're right. –And then the text phone came.

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–We used to always go to the neighbor with some money and asked if she wanted to call for us.

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You know, Mrs Ribbels, the neighbor downstairs. –Oh, you mean the one with the daughter. –Oh right...Mrs de Wit.

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We would give her a few cents and the question: could you call for us? She would go call and after a little while we would go back to her for the answer.

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If we needed a quick answer, for example from the Elferink family. Our neighbor would call Elferink's neighbor, ask the question...

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...and they'd hang up. Then the other neighbor asked Elferink the question and she'd call our neighbor again and that's how we'd get the answer.

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A letter would take too long so we'd call using the neighbor.

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–Now you just send a message with your mobile phone. –Yeah, and you expect a quick answer. Back then you didn't.

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–That's my point. Now you have an answer within two minutes. It doesn't matter anymore if you're deaf or not. How great is that!