'CODA' didn't change my life. It showed my life
CNN
Growing up as the child of Deaf adults, says Lilit Marcus, I felt like I should just get notecards to hand out explaining my identity. The Oscar success of the film 'CODA,' Marcus writes, has changed me forever -- and now a whole new generation of children like me will never have to explain what 'CODA' means.
Growing up, I had a joke that I was going to make a stack of note cards to carry with me all the time, printed with the four lines above.
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