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magical fruit
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Mike Touzeau
Infamous client She went back to Los Angeles County to get her masters at San Diego State University while working in child welfare, one of her clients was Charles Manson. "He was easy," she remembered, compared to the uphill battle she would face to try to gain recognition for the struggles of the deaf population. She recalls greeting 200 deaf people associated with the Greater L.A. Association for the Deaf (GLAD) who showed up carrying huge and cumbersome hearing assistance machines when she was trying to get them serviced under the United Way umbrella. And, she remembers United Way hiring a black militant in the '60's to assist her in her drive to get sign language accepted and get deaf persons out of mental hospitals, where many had been confined in those days. In 1969, she was further inspired by Mason Rose, a paralyzed Vietnam veteran pilot who was speaking on behalf of CAPH (California Association for the Physically Handicapped) about his attempts to become a lawyer.
"He said, 'How can I be a lawyer when I can't get up the courthouse steps?'
", she remembers.
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