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Photograph article dated February 15, 1962 partially reads, "'I love you very much, Jeffrey.' Mrs. Marcella Gagnon smiled. Her five-year-old son blushed. 'I love you, too,' he answered, each word clearly audible. 'His sentences are coming along beautifully,' the Burbank housewife noted. Towheaded Jeffrey had been diagnosed as completely deaf at the age of 24 months." Pictured is Jeffrey Gagnon.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Deaf children--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Boys--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Deafness Dwellings--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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