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Prosthetic shop
Written by Rob on Thursday, February 8, 2007
my first memorys are from age 5-6 years old. We lived behind a prosthetic shop. As a young child I would see many disabled come and go. Both men and women. They were amputees, paras, I guess now most might have been polio, this was back in 1960-1965, wheelchairs, braces. I once walked around to the front of the shop, and in the window, a display of limbs, braces, shoes. I’m sure this is what sparked my fire. I felt that I should be one of these lucky people. I too needed to use crutches, be in a wheelchair.
One day I saw a man throwing trash out, after the shop closed I went over, looked in the can and found a AFO brace.I took it home. From that day on
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1 On 8 February, 2007, Marie said:
Errm, did you forget to finish your post?