When the daughter of Mao’s Last Dancer Li Cunxin was diagnosed as profoundly deaf, his wife made an enormous sacrifice. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/3l7kXcR

Mary Li gave up her international ballet career to devote herself to teaching Sophie to hear and speak by way of cochlear implants.

But when Sophie became an adult, she began to question her parents’ earlier decisions.

As she embraced the deaf and signing community, Sophie had a choice to make — did she still want to be part of the hearing world of her family?

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