For one, I was told that she'd been deaf since she was around three years old, but her diary says that she likes music and dancing. (A lot.) I do know that she was deaf as an adult, at least as far back as the 1940's, but when or why it happened is now a mystery to me. So far, anyway.
Her diary begins as a description of herself and a plea for pen pals across the country. I guess it's possible that she wanted to write to people who didn't know she was deaf. I think it contradicts itself a couple of times. Keep in mind that she has some problems with tenses. For example, "I go to college" could mean "I am going to go to college." This is how she spoke when I knew her.
Here is the poem that she wrote following her description and pen pal request:
There are more pages where it says "click here:"
