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Making use of epistolary form (“dear reader”), this essay engages the author’s embodied experiences—as a deaf girl in rural western Kansas, circa 1970, as a University of Kansas college student, and through continued connections with her family in Kansas. The Milky Way shines throughout the essay.
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Brueggemann, B.J. (2024). Ad Astra Per Aspera (To the Stars Through Difficulties). In: Mintz, S.B., Fraser, G. (eds) Placing Disability. Literary Disability Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41219-6_7
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