Now a friend of mine wrote me a letter, which she stuck in my box last Saturday when I was away. She said, “In the year 1966, in the month of April, I went east into Pittsburgh to revisit family and friends. I carried with me this story that you taught me and I tried to explain it. I was tested. The lady to whom I tried to explain it, she and I were raised in a family of deaf parents. We were surrounded with deaf people. It was quite a problem…they were stone deaf. Now she tells me that her husband has this disease of the inner ear and there is no cure, and it leads ultimately to complete and total deafness, accompanied by dizzy spells, loss of balance and retching. This has been going on for years and getting progressively worse.395 ¶5