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  Anne makes the “miracle” breakthrough, teaching Helen that “everything had a name,” by spelling W-A-T-E-R into Helen’s hand as water from the family’s water pump flows over their hands.
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  Helen and Anne travel to New York City, where Helen attends the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf.
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  Helen is accepted as a pupil at the Cambridge School for yound ladies,in prepation for attendence at Harvards annex for women,Rad Cliffe College.
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  With help of John Albert Macy, Helen writes "The Story of my life".
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  Helen becomes the first Deaf-Blind individual to recieve a bachelor of Arts Degree, graduating cum laude from Radcliffe.
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  Helen writes and publishes "The world I live in".
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  Delieverence, a silent film based on Helen's life,is produced.
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  Annie Sullivan arrives in Tuscumbia and begins teaching Helen mutual sign language.