Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Suddenly, a flight attendant asked an 1 question: "Does anyone know American 2 Language?"
Clara, 15 at the time, pressed the call 3 . The flight attendant came by and 4 the situation. "We have a passenger who's blind and deaf. He seemed to want something, but we couldn't understand what he 5 ."
Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help with her dyslexia (读写困难) and knew she'd be able to finger spell into the man's 6 . So, she walked toward the front of the plane, and 7 down beside Tim Cook, then
64. 8 taking his hand, she signed, "Are you OK?" Tim asked for some water. When it arrived, Clara 9 to her seat. But she came by again later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed for a while.
"I was like, ‘Wow, this is cool,'" Clara says. "I hope I don't 10 anything wrong."
"Actually, he didn't need anything. He was 11 and just wanted to talk." Clara says.
Clara talked about her family and her plans for the future. Tim told Clara how he had gradually become 12 and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. "Although he couldn't see her, she looked attentively at his face with 13 ," a passenger reported.
"Clara was amazing," a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in an interview. "You could tell Tim was very excited to have someone he could 14 , and she was such an 15 ."
Tim's reaction: "Best trip I've ever had."
