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Voice is what we use to communicate with one another. Voice is the sound we make as we navigate the unknown—our echolocation, mapping the world, attempting to place ourselves within it. Voice encodes experience, loss, pain, joy. We don’t acquire voice in spite of failure, but through it. Because of it.