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I was one of those weird people who just
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understood music on a different level
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naturally she's a kind of you know x-men
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kind of thing she's a different type of
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human being
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she's amazing she's pretty much the best
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singer I've ever heard and she can't
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hear to be able to look at the ocean in
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silence it gives you the opportunity to
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create whatever you want it to be in the
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moment when I lost my hearing all I
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wanted was to be able to go back to
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where I could hear again when she
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graduated from Longmont high she was
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voted top female vocalist so that the
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dream was kind of queued up my my dream
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and my reality met in college and it was
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perfect for about a month that's all I
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got a month before I stopped being able
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to understand my teachers talking to me
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in class by Christmas I was legally deaf
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in both ears my hearing aids did not
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give me the information that I needed to
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stay a music major and I was dropped
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from the music program we get in a car
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we leave Colorado State University and
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the world gets silent she stops singing
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it's still very it's still very real for
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me I really didn't know what to do
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because my way of expressing myself was
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gone
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I know this hurts but let's go let's
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keep let's keep moving
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learn a song I'll play I'll play the
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guitar in you singing
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and so I I spent time figuring out this
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one song note by note by note just
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seeing this the note into the little
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tuner feel it
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yep I'm right okay next note I don't
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think that people really know the
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backstory of how hard it is to have to
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feel on your body where your voice goes
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he pulled up his guitar I closed my eyes
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after I found my first note and I just
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started singing and that freedom came of
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not being able to judge myself
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it was just Dan and are doing what we
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had done a hundred times before and that
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led me to wanting to figure out how I
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could learn other vibrations to learn
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more about myself to give myself better
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opportunities
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I think America's Got Talent was that
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for her so singing and performing for
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people wasn't scary anymore because I
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knew that if losing my hearing wasn't
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gonna kill me which I always dreamed it
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would what can they take what can they
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take that wasn't already broken nothing
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when I first met Mick we met up and we
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just started having just long
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conversations and he said hey I have
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this interesting idea about music the
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idea was recognizing the fact that the
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Deaf feels music mainly by getting hit
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with one way of a vibration coming off
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these huge subs and speakers that's
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absurd
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that's the reason why I don't go to
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concerts I'm not a part of the
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experience maybe we can figure out how
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to get around the eardrum which
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basically is a receptor of vibration and
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go straight to the brain and the detour
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that we concluded on was going through
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the skin all of a sudden things started
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to take hold and music not impossible
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was born we had had so many
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conversations about how I've created a
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system of feeling music that the
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information could be very helpful for
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them to improve the system in the
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beginning it was a very small operation
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right for a firm use so when Daniel
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communicated with me about music not
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impossible so this is Bob he had limited
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channels but all of the vibrations were
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the same what he was missing was
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intensity difference of vibrations I
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would put the wrists probably to the
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lightest setting they had so much
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potential to go so much further
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let's keep going let's make this better
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we're really good at finding someone who
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needs to be helped in creating a
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solution for that one person what we
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don't have is a track record of taking
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an idea and scaling it to help many and
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that is the secret sauce of Abnett the
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fact that Abnett has come in and made it
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for the masses you saw the magic that is
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happening here and how it's bringing
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about equality that's the incredible
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thing about not impossible labs and
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Avnet they want to figure it out because
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they want to make it impact they want to
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help
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the beautiful thing about music not
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impossible it's saying that you're not
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experiencing it wrong you're
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experiencing it differently let's both
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experience it together here's a bunch of
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information that you've been missing out
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on for a long time ma'am
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here you go she's given a gift not just
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to the deaf community but she's given a
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gift to the hearing community because
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now you've created this equality that
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didn't exist before it's always been
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really important to help create
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community it's it's a bonding it's
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understanding that you could easily be
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this person it's understanding that they
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give me a value just as much as I'm
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giving them even though they're
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different the symphony is going to be a
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completely different experience than
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life is beautiful and translating her
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music to an orchestra it's a bit more of
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a grand sort of presentation I could
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feel when the violins swell
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I mean I can feel you when you when you
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speed up it was just like well here we
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go I can also feel when the oboz or the
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clarinets are leaving so that I can
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understand the picture in its entirety
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but I'm so glad you're here and I hope
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you have a good time this evening ladies
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and gentlemen please welcome to the
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stage Mandy Harvey and then she can
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really like okay
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the technical stuff is here I know what
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is happening on my body in terms of
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vibrations and then it can be expressed
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so she can just okay I'm just singing
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I love that she just it's right back up
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again and she tries so hard it's so
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inspiring you think is very very like
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important to me
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thank you I think if she was talking to
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some physician or occupational therapist
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and she described to them what she
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wanted to do everybody that she would
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have talked to her said she's crazy and
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you ignore your critics you ignore the
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naysayers and that's what she did and
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now she's who she is there are a lot of
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barriers in life and we have the ability
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especially we work together as a team to
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crush those barriers and to change the
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world around us for a positive way she's
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like yeah this happened to me and guess
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what I did I pushed through it was it
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hard hell yeah but you know what you can
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do that too so let's do it together
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I don't sing for myself I can't hear
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myself saying it's not that interesting
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the interesting part is how it affects
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other people and how it creates a
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community and why do you wake up in the
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morning and struggle because I can and I
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choose to because I want to help
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somebody else help help
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