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In the late 1800s, a young deaf woman named Laura Bridgman was more famous than Helen Keller, yet almost no one remembers her. Born in 1829, Laura lost her hearing, sight, smell, and most of her taste to scarlet fever by the age of two. But at age seven, she became the first person ever to learn language without sight or hearing. Her teacher, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, developed a method using raised letters and tactile spelling, allowing Laura to communicate with the world around her. For years,

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