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With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope.
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The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter.
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With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.