Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption

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At only some months old, Zoe used to be gradually losing her hearing. Her adoptive parents loved her—yet agonized—feeling they couldn’t maintain raising a Deaf child. Would Zoe go back into the welfare system and spend her childhood hoping to find parents willing to adopt her? Or, would she be the long-sought answer to a mother’s prayers?

Brandi Rarus used to be just 6 when spinal meningitis took away her hearing. Because she spoke well and easily adjusted to lip reading, she used to be mainstreamed in school and socialized primarily in the hearing community. Brandi used to be a popular, happy teen, but being fully a part of every conversation used to be an ongoing struggle. She felt caught between two worlds—the Deaf and the hearing.

In college, Brandi embraced Deaf Culture together with the joys of complete and effortless communication with her peers. Brandi went on to grow to be Miss Deaf The united states in 1988 and served as a spokesperson for her community. It used to be all over her tenure as Miss Deaf The united states that Brandi met Tim, a leader of the Gallaudet Uprising in strengthen of selecting the university’s first Deaf president. The two went on to marry and had three hearing boys—the first non-deaf children born in Tim’s family in 125 years.

Brandi used to be incredibly grateful to have her three wonderful sons, but couldn’t shake the feeling something used to be missing. She didn’t know that Zoe, a six-month-old Deaf baby girl caught in the foster care system, used to be desperately in need of a family unafraid of her different needs. Brandi found the answer to her prayers when fate brought her new adopted daughter into her life.

Set against the backdrop of Deaf The united states, Finding Zoe is an uplifting story of hope, adoption, and on a regular basis miracles.
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