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Braille is a special system of writing and reading for blind people.

Braille letters
have groups of bumps or dots. Blind people read these dots by running their
fingertips across them to recognize the pattern of the dots. Braille uses a special
code of sixty-three characters. Each character has one to six dots that are
arranged in a six-position pattern. For example, in the pattern for the letter C, the
top two dots are raised, but the lower four are not. Braille gets its name from
Louis braille, a blind science and music teacher who invented this special alphabet
in 1800s. Millions of blind people are able to read today because of this simple yet
effective communication system.

My friend Mary is a very kind person. She likes helping people. She visits sick
people in hospital and she spends time reading to young children at the library.
She brings food to her elderly neighbor because he cannot cook for himself
anymore. She takes another neighbor's dog for a walk because that person is in a
wheelchair. Mary is the kindest person I know.

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