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“I was embarrassed to be seen in a chair. I just remember that barrier of people seeing me in a chair and I just was like, ‘Uh, what are they thinking?’ Now I’ve got this attitude like, ‘World, see me now!’ It’s so cool.” Yancey "Brother Born" Horton - T10 Incomplete Paraplegic from Connecticut, USA, 15 years post-injury8/26/2019
Meet Yancey "Brother Born" Horton, a father, boxer, and martial artist. "Be true to yourself, love yourself, and don't let nobody else's ideas of you overcome your own ideas of you." Meet MeLissa, who has consistently sidestepped the list of "never will you ever's" being thrown her way. Meet Carrie Flowers, T10 paraplegic from Texas. She loves camping, teaching science to middle schoolers, and exploring the world. "If someone has to go to Delhi from Bihar, then they can’t go by foot. They go by train, by flight or by bus. Similarly, if we have to go outside... then the wheelchair takes the place of our legs." |
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