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Good Stuff: Formerly blind and deaf 2-year-old sees and hears Mom.

Sometimes with the good stuff, we get a story that’s so beautiful, you have to see it.

This is one of those stories.

There’s a two-year-old from Brazil who’s been blind and deaf her whole life.  But surgeons in Miami restored her vision last month, realized water had built up in her inner ears, did another operation the same day, and she can HEAR now too.

 

See the video here: (Miami Herald)

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