Unit 1 A land of diversity
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There's being a good neighbor, and then there's going the extra mile. And in one Massachusetts neighborhood, the neighbors are pulling out all the stops.
Two years ago, about a __1__ after Samantha was born, Glenda and Raphael Savitz learned their daughter was __2__. “She was the first deaf person my husband and I had known,” Glenda, 33, told the Boston Globe. “So it's a surprise. __3__. But I think I'm someone who's like: OK. What do we do? She's a week old. We're going to be learning sign language. There was no __4__ that it was going to be important to her development and her __5__.”
But the Savitz family weren't the only ones who learned how to sign. Over 20 residents of their neighborhood in the town of Newton are also learning sign language. The residents __6__ an instructor on their own and __7__ gathered together in a living room to learn the language. The neighbors' desire to learn to __8__ with Samantha is something that the Savitz family find extremely __9__.
“One of the most emotional issues having her is that I really learned about how much support and how much love there is here,” Glenda said. “People are __10__ so much time and energy to learn a(n) __11__ language because they're dying to talk to my little girl. I don't have __12__ for that.”
Baby Sam already has friends all over the neighborhood. Henry Marshall, a 1