Byline: MARJORIE VALBRUN Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Judy Murray remembers the incident so clearly it still hurts like it happened yesterday. It was a cold January day and she was planning for her daughter's wedding. She went to her favorite department store looking for black silk shoes but when she began speaking, something disturbing happened.
``The salesgirl looked stunned,'' Murray says. ``She started crying and moving slowly back away from me. I started to cry, too.''
Murray says she often is met with shocked expressions or horrified stares when she speaks to strangers.
When she tries to conduct business on the phone, people hang up on her before she completes her first sentence.
``I get it all the time,'' Murray says. ``It's so frustrating. Most people laugh or I get, `What are you trying to do? Disguise your voice?'''
Murray wishes she could. But the voice she has is not her own. It's provided by a device called an electro larynx that has allowed her to speak since she lost her real voice to cancer two years ago. These days she sounds more like those monotone computerized telephone sales pitches that have become so common.
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