“It’s the first time he’s ever heard...
“It’s the first time he’s ever heard anything.”
--Dr. Jack Pulec, after physicians in Los Angeles completed an operation on the inner ear of 10-year-old Jose de Jesus Aguilar, a deaf mute who until recently lived among the hundreds of young beggars and street urchins who roam the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
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