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Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama
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At eighteen months old, Helen has scarlet fever, which left her blind and deaf.
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Annie Sullivan comes to Tuscumbia from the Perkins Institute in Boston, Massachusetts to be Helen's teacher. Annie brought Helen a doll and D-O-L-L was the first word Helen learned how to sign.
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Helen makes the connection between the letters W-A-T-E-R and water. The understands that words have meaning.
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A letter from Perkins Institute, inviting Helen to visit the school in Boston.
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Helen and Annie spend the summer at Perkins Institute and Plymouth Rock. At the end of the summer, they return to Tuscumbia, AL.
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Helen wants to learn to speak. She attends the Horrace Mann School.
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Sarah Fuller teaches Helen to speak by feeling the vibrations her throat and mouth make. Her first words are "I am not dumb now."
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Helen and Annie are invited to the White House to meet President
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Helen entered college at Radcliffe College
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Helen graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College.
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Annie Sullivan died.
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Helen Keller died.
