The hardest

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　　I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of

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　　that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real,

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　　person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

　　It took me years to discover and

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　　this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he

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　　me, “and roll it around.” The words

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　　in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought

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　　: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I

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　　a successful variation of baseball and I called it ground ball.

　　All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my

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　　. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach

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