Who did Helen Keller attribute with making the story of her life?
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Helen Keller attributed making of ‘The Story of My Life’ to Miss Anne Sullivan. Helen was leading a darkened life, literally as well as metaphorically. Owing to her blindness and deafness, her two windows of the most important senses were closed, shutting the light of knowledge and beauty outside her. Her inside was in utter darkness. Like a ship lost in fog, Helen's soul was crying, “Light! Give me light!" And in response to her cries, God sent Miss Sullivan into her life, whose light of love shone on Helen, and her darkness was gone forever. Miss Sullivan taught Helen with so much of love and dedication, that Helen's shut windows of the senses of vision and hearing were compensated for. Miss Sullivan taught her the secret of language. In the 7 chapter, Helen praises Miss Sullivan in the following words: "Thus I learned from life itself. At the beginning I was only a mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them. When she came, everything about me breathed of love and joy and was full of meaning." It was Miss Sullivan's genius, her sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of Helen's education so beautiful.