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From The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (1903)

Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing as a baby, before she had learned to talk. For years, she had no way to share her thoughts with other people, and no words for the world around her. When she was almost seven, a teacher named Anne Sullivan came to live with her family and try to teach her. Anne would press letters into Helen's palm with her fingers, spelling out the names of objects. Helen could copy the patterns, but she did not understand that they meant anything. This is how Helen described what happened one morning in the garden:

We walked down the path to the well-house, drawn by the fragrance of the honeysuckle with which it was covered. Someone was drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten, a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

I left the well-house eager to learn. Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought. As we returned to the house every object which I touched seemed to quiver with life. That was because I saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to me.