Take, for instance, when the button Stella uses to say “beach” broke. “When that happened, Stella said, ‘help water outside,’” Hunger tells us. “It was so incredible that she could communicate about that and find another way to say ‘beach.’” Or another time, when Hunger realized Stella was using the button for “love you” in a whole new way: “She used to only use it when we were either giving her affection or she was giving us affection, but then she started using ‘love you’ whenever we would say ‘no’ to something. So, if she said ‘outside’ and we said, ‘no, not right now,’ she would say, ‘love you outside.’”
