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Kurt_S General Member of the Public

Rating: 5

09/18/2017

Polio struck a million little kids around the world. I was one.

How did most of us succeed and adjust? Because of the force of the family, especially the mothers. I wrote a book about mine after her death, trying to condense 60 years of her life into just 100 pages. I spoke of her ideals, about own adjustments when I became ill and how she encouraged me to pursue all that life offered. She told me to see the world and all it offered. I did.

Many years later, I helped her adjust after she had a stroke, giving her the strength she had willed to me.

I know it is a story that continues to give, helping others who are disabled.

"Giving" does not always entail money.

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