A Boy Walked Up To My Wheelchair And Said He Could Make Me Walk Again

the dock.

People froze.

I didn’t.

I dove.

The rescue itself lasted seconds.

I found her.

Grabbed her.

Pushed her toward the surface.

Toward her mother.

Toward safety.

Then everything went wrong.

My head slammed into a submerged rock.

There was a sharp crack inside my neck.

Then darkness.

When I woke up in the hospital, my wife Claire was sitting beside my bed.

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