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For 18 months I had been coached and drilled to act deaf, mute and blind to audition for the role of 10-year-old Helen Keller in the Broadway play, The Miracle Worker<\/em>, which opened October 19, 1959, and enjoyed a run of 719 performances.<\/p>\n

When they told me I had got the part, at first I was overjoyed. But the next day when I thought about it, I became afraid. How could I tell anyone that practicing to play a blind girl on the stage somehow had made me deathly afraid of being blind.<\/p>\n

Part of the fear was because of the big fight scene in the play. It was full of violence. The blind Helen is like a wild little savage. She does everything to oppose the efforts of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.<\/p>\n

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In the fight scene at the breakfast table, plates, cups, saucers, silverware, even a chair and a pitcher full of water are thrown about.<\/p>\n

During the early rehearsals I choked on the food, cut my hand, chipped a tooth and had my head banged against the door jamb. It could have been worse. I fought down my fear as best I could.<\/p>\n

One night after the play had opened, I was in my usual place backstage, waiting for my cue. The stage manager had just called, \u201cPlaces, please!\u201d<\/p>\n

In a few minutes the curtain would go up. I would hear the words for my entrance, and then for the next two and a half hours I would be groping, falling, and stumbling about the stage, acting the part of a blind, deaf mute.<\/p>\n

As I concentrated on the feeling of being sightless one of the four blind girls in the cast came by. She greeted me with her usual cheerful, \u201cHello.\u201d<\/p>\n

I looked up to return her greeting, and I felt a sudden twist inside me. There was a welt on her forehead, one of her cheeks was bruised and the other cut just below the eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened?\u201d I stammered.<\/p>\n

She reached out for me, grasped my hand, and laughed. \u201cNothing, Patty, really. I had a battle with a clothes hook in our dressing room, and I lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

I tried to think of something to say, but couldn\u2019t. I felt numb.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour cue, Patty,\u201d she said quickly.<\/p>\n

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I pressed her hand very hard once, and shuffled on stage. My arms were outstretched before me and my hands \u201cfeeling\u201d my way. For now, I too was \u201cblind.\u201d But it chilled me.<\/p>\n

How could anyone want to go on living with blindness?<\/p>\n

It became almost impossible to erase these thoughts from my mind. I began to wonder, more and more, about a world where such tragedies could happen. I wondered and I was drawn more and more to the four blind children in the cast.<\/p>\n

One night I asked my mother about blindness. She said not to worry about it because sometimes God takes something away with one hand, then He gives with the other. The blind often see things more clearly than people with perfect eyes.<\/p>\n

But I really didn\u2019t understand what she meant.<\/p>\n

I found myself joining more and more in the games with the four blind girls. Jumping rope was one of them. Two of the blind girls would turn the rope and when I yelled, \u201cNow!\u201d a third would hop in and begin to jump.<\/p>\n

As the rope turned faster and faster, their yells and laughter became louder and louder. But somehow I could not laugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cWould you like to play ball with us?\u201d they asked me one day.<\/p>\n

Play ball! I couldn\u2019t believe my ears. But here\u2019s the way they did it: they used a fairly large rubber ball. A blind child would stand at bat, facing the pitcher. The pitcher would get direction from the voice of the batter.<\/p>\n

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The batter would listen for the sound of the ball bouncing, and the \u201cassistant batter,\u201d who was sighted, would yell \u201cSwing\u201d just as the ball came over the plate. If the ball was hit, the assistant would grab the batter\u2019s hand and lead her running around the bases.<\/p>\n

On the day before Easter an egg hunt was held in the theater. Eggs were hidden around the stage, backstage and about the wardrobe room. To make it fair, the sighted children were blindfolded.<\/p>\n

When the game started, we had to go down a flight of stairs, and with my blindfold on I held back. \u201cToo fast,\u201d I shouted. All I got in reply was laughter. The blind children took my hand and led me!<\/p>\n

Through narrow passages, over wire and cables, under low-hanging pipes, my blind friends led me. It was like being in the scary black darkness of a \u201cFun House\u201d in an amusement park, where you don\u2019t know what terrifying thing might happen to you next. I was scared\u2014and ashamed of it.<\/p>\n

After the performance that night, Mr. and Mrs. John Ross, who have coached and managed me in the theater since I was eight and have been like second parents, asked why I was so quiet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything wrong?\u201d Mrs. Ross inquired.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d I answered, \u201cnothing except in the middle of the fight scene I threw one of the spoons too hard and it bounced off the wall and hit me on the face,\u201d I answered. \u201cIt came pretty close to my eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s really bothering you, Patty?\u201d Mr. Ross asked.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Ross took my hand.<\/p>\n

I blurted it out, all about my blind friend and the bruises on her face and everything that happened in the games and the egg hunt and how I wouldn\u2019t want to live if I ever became blind.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat certainly would not be the answer,\u201d Mrs. Ross said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen what is the answer?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did Helen Keller do?\u201d Mr. Ross asked.<\/p>\n

I shook my head. \u201cBut I\u2019m not Helen Keller.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not,\u201d Mr. Ross said. \u201cBut to play her you must get inside her, you almost must become her.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve done that with the wild young Helen Keller, but you must know how the child grew to be one of the world\u2019s great women by mastering her handicaps and fears. Try thinking of yourself in this role too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut how did she get rid of her fears?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe put herself in God\u2019s hands,\u201d Mr. Ross said simply.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should she?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause she knew that she was helpless to help herself. Helen Keller was desperately afraid, too, but she knew that if God, who created her, was a loving Father, He was surely going to help her if she asked Him to. And when she put herself in His care she found new strength.\u201d<\/p>\n

I sat silent; Mrs. Ross went on:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Helen Keller grew up and became a famous woman, she wrote that she made the most wonderful discovery of her life when she was 16. These are her words:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019We are never happy unless our hearts are filled with the sun which never dissolves into gloom. God is that sun, and if our faith in Him is strong, whether we are blind or seeing, He will somehow reveal our powers and brighten the darkest days with His divine beams.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

I took all that to bed with me to think about. And the more I thought, the clearer it became. The blind children in the cast were without fear because they trusted God.<\/p>\n

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Little by little I discovered that when I forgot myself and trusted a God who loves me then I was not nearly as afraid as before.<\/p>\n

And I learned what my mother meant when she said the blind often see more clearly than people with good eyes. It\u2019s because they don\u2019t wait until the last minute to put themselves in His hands.<\/p>\n

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