Inspiration: “Left Behind” from Spring Awakening

The recent Broadway revival of Spring Awakening was performed in American Sign Language, and sparked a lot of conversations about the relationships of the hearing and deaf community.

I signed about a second of each phrase and put all the “frames” together.

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“The talks you never had.”

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“The Saturdays you never spent.”

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“And all of the crying you wouldn’t understand.”

—By Emmy G., 17, Virginia