My dear mother, God rest her soul (November 13, 1918 - August 23, 2000) would gave been 100 years old on November 13, 2018. In this video she tells about being a little girl in Springdale, Arkansas, and how her parents sent her off to begin school at the Arkansas School for the Deaf in Little Rock. Her mother sewed her new school clothes, and packed a suitcase, then her father took her on the train to Little Rock where she saw the other children playing and talking to each other in sign language. While her attention was diverted, her father left and when she noticed that she gas been left alone, began to cry. She expresses her thanks to her parents for loving her enough to send her to school. She attended the school until she graduated some 12 years later. She lost her hearing in the deadly 1918 flu pandemic and grew up during the 1920s, lived through the Great Depression and World War II, moved to California, married my father, who also lost his hearing during the flu pandemic. I was born in 1948 an only child. Her friend Barbara O''Connor, a sign language interpreter, taped her telling this story. I love you, Mom.