Then one day I just up and wrote to her. And she wrote me back and said she had been thinking about writing to me.

接着，随后的一天我突然拿起笔写了封信给她，她给我回了信，并说她之前也一直想给我写份信来着。

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She examined it and did not find herself in the art.She wrote that she had been taught to work like others.She decided then that she would not spend her life doing what had already been done.

她写道她一直以来学到的仅仅是像其他人一样去进行创作，接着她决定她将不会再把她的人生花费在去做别人已经做过的事情上。

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And then this past fall, when it came time to write a letter to Santa, this is what she wrote: "Dear Santa, I don't really want anything for Christmas this year, except for a pig."

然后，去年秋天，海伦开始给圣诞老人写信，她在信中写道：“亲爱的圣诞老人，今年的圣诞节除了一头小猪，我真的不想要任何东西了。”

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And then at Tisch she met an African sister and they wrote a play about HIV and they traveled all over, from Africa to all over here in the United States.

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Theodore wrote that she then knelt by his side and held his hand on her lap.

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"The business plan wrote itself to begin with, then backed up with help and advice I received, " she says.

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