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Let's crack on with today's stories. Sorry I went off on that singing. And our first story comes from Terrible Dinner, 6795, titled I the arseol for not learning sign language for stepdaughter.

I 30s female had been married to Beaufort, apologies if I got that wrong,

40s male for about a year. I brought Jay, eight male and juniper five female from a past marriage.

And until very recently, we thought Beaufort had no children. We had no intentions of having

more kids. As it happens though, it turns out Beaufort actually does have

a daughter, Marquita, 15 female. Her mum did not tell Beaufort about her pregnancy and ultimately

moved states, so he had no idea until she reached out on Facebook. We were a little dubious, but she

turned out to be right. Makita and Mum moved back to our state

in the meantime and live about 40 minutes from us. She wants visitation with Beaufort, which he has

agreed to. There's no formal custody arrangement between Beaufort and Mum, so it's basically

just sporadic weekends and school holidays. Usually this is just between the two of them, but sometimes she will come to the house

and has even slept over a few times.

Here's my dilemma.

Marquita is hearing impaired.

I'm not entirely sure to what degree, but I do know she almost exclusively uses ASL.

No one in our family knows ASL but Beaufort has

been trying to learn for her. The last time Marquita was here, he pitched to me the idea of

us learning ASL as a family. The truth is that I really don't know if that is worth the effort.

Marquita is present at our house maybe once a month. I would consider

it if she were going to be over more often, but I work 48 hours a week and I just don't

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