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Helen Adams Keller was born June 27, 1880, and died June 1, 1968. She was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. Helen Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, to parents Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, cousin of Robert E. Lee.
She was not born blind and deaf; it was not until nineteen months of age that she came down with an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain," which could have possibly been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind.
Helen's big breakthrough in communication came one day when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on her palm, while running cool water over her palm from a pump, symbolized the idea of "water;" she then nearly exhausted Anne Sullivan, her teacher, demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
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