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‘Call it JSL’: How a paralyzed artist found love with a deaf dancer and created their own language
Despite being paralyzed from the shoulders down and unable to use sign language, artist Sara Jane Parsons quickly found a way to communicate with Tony-award-winning dancer Jimmy Turner—who is deaf—when she first encountered him in January 2005. “I realized it’s not really different than talking to anybody else in a language that’s not English and…
