Actress Patty Duke, of Coeur d'Alene, is shown during a break earlier this year while directing the play that make her famous, "The Miracle Worker" at Interplayers in Spokane. She won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller and an Emmy for playing Annie Sullivan in a TV version. Today she is in Helena, Mont., to discuss her long battle with mental illness. Story below. (SR file photo: Dan Pelle)

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