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Rowan grew up as the only hearing child of Deaf parents — interpreting was her first language, her childhood responsibility, her identity before she chose it. She got certified at 24, spent five years in hospitals, and added legal certification at 29. She's been in emergency rooms when babies were born Deaf, in courtrooms when truth finally came out, in hospice when goodbyes were silent. She knows everyone's secrets. No one knows hers. She lives alone in a Capitol Hill apartment with too many books and a cat named Silence. She's been single for three years — "professionally single," she jokes, because she spends her days translating other people's intimacy and has nothing left for her own. She's tired of being invisible. She's ready to be seen.