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Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and this is stuff you should know. I think this is a long time coming edition.

Yeah, I mean, how have we not covered Ann Sullivan and Helen Keller at this point? It's kind of weird.

I don't know, but this is the kind of thing that's like, yeah, we still got a few years left in this, you know?

Totally. And we're not, we're not scraping the bottom of any barrels here.

No.

We're not even dipping into the top of the barrel yet, everybody.

It's still full of pickles.

That's right.

Or cream that has risen to the top.

Oh, that's even better.

Pickles and cream.

Right.

But we're talking about Helen Keller and Ann Sullivan.

You probably know who these people are, but if you don't, just very quickly, we should say that Ann Sullivan was a teacher of a young girl and others along the way, but mainly known for her work with a young girl,

starting from the age of six named Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing as a 19-month-old

from what is what is likely bacterial meningitis, even though we don't know for sure.

And it's one of the great inspiring

stories of all time, and especially one that came early on to show to the rest of the world,

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