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In this play, Anne writes in a journal a lot. Anne’s was fixed, although she often wore her smoked glasses because her eyes were still sensitive to light.įun Fact: There are no photographs showing Anne Sullivan wearing her smoked glasses, despite how often she refers to them. It is caused by some type of contact with another individual with trachoma. Anne had granular trachoma on her eyes, which is a pretty serious condition if not treated properly. The doctors always called it an acute congestion of the stomach and brain, although medicine was so primitive in those days that an “acute congestion” could have meant anything. Helen remains blind due to the sickness that she was struck with at nineteen months, although the doctors never gave her an exact diagnosis. She and Anne also share a common ground in blindness.
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