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Hearing-impaired student goes the extra mile to graduate - TSDMemphis.com

As a 2020 high school graduate, Allen Anthony Henderson can attest to the need to face challenges, embrace a reasoned path forward and to get moving right through the finish line. And, he knew that long before COVID-19 became known as a pandemic-wide public emergency. Henderson is deaf. For six years, he traveled weekly from []

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