Love letter: an unspoken gesture of love

Ross Showalter, the deaf author of this week’s Modern Love essay, has been disappointed for the past nine years by suitors who promised to learn sign language but never followed through.

That all changed when he met Will, a man who not only made learning sign language a priority, but also helped Mr. Showalter discover that he deserved more than one-sided relationships based on empty promises.

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