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The Most Important Day in My Life Helen Keller Helen Keller’s profile Helen Keller was born in 1880 and died in 1968. She was one of the most famous person in the world. While she was still at college she wrote ‘The Story of My Life’. This was very successful. In 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom. Helen Keller’s profile Helen Keller was less than two years old when she came down with a fever. It struck dramatically and left her unconscious. The fever went just as suddenly. But she was blinded and, very soon after, deaf. Helen Keller’s profile As she grew up, she managed to learn to do tiny errands, but she also realized that she was missing something. Sometimes, she later wrote, “I stood between two persons who were conversing and touched their lips. I could not understand, and was vexed. Helen Keller’s profile I moved my lips and gesticulated frantically without result. This made me so angry at times that I kicked and screamed until I was exhausted.” She was a wild child. That‘s Helen Keller，a greatest writer in the world. paragraph 8 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 a strange, new sight that had come to me. paragraph 8 On entering the door I remembered the doll I had broken. I felt my way to the hearth and picked up the pieces. I tried vainly to put them together. Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow. paragraph 9 I learned a great many new words that day. I don’t remember what they all were; but I know that mother, father, sister, teacher were among them—words that were to make the world blossom for me, “like Aaron’s rod, with flowers.” paragraph 9 It would have been difficult to find a happier child than I was when I lay