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I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

Marlee Matlin

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Marlee Matlin
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 24
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Marlee Beth Matlin
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