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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
3.0

It’s very difficult for me to wrap my brain around how Helen Keller was able to read, speak, write, and learn many languages as a blind and deaf person in the late 1800s. I struggle with learning foreign languages now and I am not blind or deaf. Perhaps she had a natural gift for languages?
I also wonder what would have happened to her if she had not been born into this particular family, who seemed well connected. I’m sure she was not the only person rendered blind and/or deaf due to illness during this time.
Her story is remarkable and so is Anne Sullivan’s. It took both of them to achieve such remarkable feats.