Sullivan was Hellen Keller’s home tutor, mentor and as she calls, a ‘turning point’. Her name is Hellen Keler and she exactly taught us how to see and hear Niagara Falls the way we see and hear the word ‘religion’. To a first-time reader it is fascinating beyond measure that once upon a time there existed a fairy without eyes and ears, who not only did magically spell ‘foraminifera’ and pronounce ‘antediluvian’ fluently but also did her words conjure your mind into seeing a tiny movie of ‘a tiny mollusk building a lustrous coil for his dwelling place’ and ‘a little polyps building beautiful coral isles of Pacific.’ She proved that no earthly curse is superior to love and most importantly, she realized that every moment is a milestone if we only remember to ask ‘what did I learn? That’s her story! She was deaf but she heard the impossible say, I’m possible? She discovered thoughts that overpowered her obstacles. She was blind but she saw her dreams become reality.
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