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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
5.0

Helen Keller's autobiography was GREAT. She is so smart and so thoughtful. Did you know that she could also understand French and German!? WHAT! The thing that struck me most was how she referred to herself as "dull" because she struggled with math. This woman who was blind and deaf, who learned to touch-sign and read lips with her fingers in THREE LANGUAGES, who was the first deaf-blind person to graduate college and who wrote a dozen books, thought that she was dumb and was down on herself for not grasping arithmetic easily. I can't wait to read her other works.