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Correct, Cheri. They are just dishonest beggars.
You can really tell the bad ones because the cards are so cheap and blurred that they're useless.
Like Max does, my sister and I try to expose them as frauds by signing a phrase which their face tells us they don't understand or calling to them after they turn away.
I have some sympathy for those who are truly deaf, as I have college and graduate degrees and had a tough time finding even menial jobs after I went totally deaf.
But my sister has been deaf all her life and raised four boys on her own by working one or more full-time jobs at a time--so she has no sympathy for street beggars.
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