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The New Zealand indoor basketball team at the Deaf Olympics in Washington recently did not win a game. Yet to Napier’s Forman brothers, Mervyn and Ray, the experience was one never to be forgotten.
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The Daily Telegraph
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SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1965-007
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