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While she was in college she wrote her book

called "The Story of My Life". With the money
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she earned from the book she was able to buy a
house.

In 1915, she founded Helen Keller International,
a non-profit organization for preventing

blindness. Helen and Anne Sullivan traveled all
over the world to over 39 countries. Helen Keller
met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland
to John F. Kennedy and was friends with many
famous figures including Alexander Graham Bell,

Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.

She wrote a total of eleven books, and authored numerous articles.
Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American
Foundation for the Blind.

On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded her
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian

honor.

Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968 at the age of 87, more than thirty
years after the death of Anne Sullivan. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan,
is remembered as "the Miracle Worker" for her lifetime dedication,
patience and love to a half-wild southern child trapped in a world of

darkness.
Word Trove

dearly /ˈdɪəli/ : very much
frustrated /frʌˈstreɪtɪd/ : feeling sad and discouraged

tantrum /ˈtæntrəm/ : a fit of bad temper
isolate /ˈaɪsəleɪt/ : cause a person to be alone or apart from others
tremendous /trəˈmendəs/ : very great in amount or intensity
determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃn/ : firmness of purpose, purposefulness

willpower /ˈwɪlpaʊə(r)/ : ability to control oneself

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