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When recovering your voice changes your relationship to language

I lost my voice for three months due to illness and when it came back I could only speak in whispers and now every word feels precious and dangerous.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Temporary loss of speech has revealed the taken-for-granted miracle of linguistic expression and created reverence mixed with vulnerability.

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