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Part One: Helen Keller Was a Socialist But Also Complicated

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The First Deafblind Person to Learn Language

Julia Brace was the first deafblind person to learn language in Western society. She communicated by tactile sign language, preferring it to braille and written language. "I couldn't even find non Western examples," she says.

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