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"Miss Deaf America" Heather Whitestone know as " Miss Deaf America". She was first deaf Miss America. Heather exemplifed her perseverance by her physical limitations, her complex school career, and her diffcult social life.

Heather Whitestone was born on Febuary 28, 1973. At only 18 months old, she developed a dangerously high fever and became profoundly deaf. Again the massive infection left her not able to walk, she had to re-learn to walk all over again. The doctors said that she would not live past the third grade, but she overcame, her phyiscal limitions by learning to walk once again, and taking many vocal exercises.

Heather Whitestone overcame her complex school career because she had a very diffiuclut time at school. She was a very slow reader and had a hard time with english grammar, because of her speech problem's. But, she overcame her complex school career by, going Central Institute for the Deaf, for her speech, academic, and social skills. Also, she began dancing. This helped her with her body language more then words.

Heather overcame her difficlut social life, she was called "deaf girl". Also while having speech exercises her sisters would go out and play, which made her very frustrated. Also, she became frustrated when people would laugh, and talk about things, and her not being able to know what they were talking about. She then overcame these by being able to do pagents, which made her feel like that she was know. She went on and won Miss Alabama two times, and then in 1995, she won Miss America.

Heather Whitestone, exemplied her perserverance by her physical issues, her difficult personal relationship, and such a complex school years.

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