Helen would be sent to an insane asylum (a common practise at the time for severely/multiple handicapped people). One idea of the movie stayed with me: If Annie Sullivan gave up, she was Helen Keller's last chance. I watched it, taping it at the same time, then sat there a long time afterward. Very familiar to the story of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller (favorite book, remember), I switched it over to the movie. It was while I was sitting in the living room shortly after that, checking the schedule of the satellite TV that I noticed the title "the miracle worker". I told my mom of this plan, and she, the one who taught me my love of animals, asked me to give the puppy just a little while longer. Maybe I and Evony weren't supposed to connect. I was seriously considering sending her back to my boss, who would find her another home. I was getting truly frustrated because she didn't seem to be catching on.
After several weeks working with her virtually every free moment, I was going to do something I'd never once considered: I was going to give up on another living creature.
The four month old puppy, a beautiful version of the coloring known as Harlequin, needed patience and extensive training. My boss at the time, a truck driver and breeder of Great Danes, knowing I was very much an animal lover, asked if I'd be interested in taking a deaf female great dane he'd rescued from another breeder. It would take fifteen years after first reading the book, but I would eventually learn some of this amazing language. It also gave me a lifetime of wanting to learn the entire American Sign Language. The name of the book was "the story of Helen Keller". One of the codes was Braille, the other was the Manual Alphabet. I learned them to the extent that throughout my schooling, I could use either one of them quite proficiently. I read this one several times, mostly for the story but also for two very secret codes that no one else knew. When i was about seven years old, I read a fascinating book, unusual for me considering I wasn't really much for reading books (and still aren't).
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