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“Hoping that you may help to keep warm the interest in raising the handicapped to the rights and the activities of normal humanity, I am, with renewed thanks, 
Faithfully yours, 
Helen Keller”

From a letter to former President Herbert Hoover
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“Hoping that you may help to keep warm the interest in raising the handicapped to the rights and the activities of normal humanity, I am, with renewed thanks,

Faithfully yours,

Helen Keller”

From a letter to former President Herbert Hoover

Source: research.archives.gov

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