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I’m sorry Sunduvan, it is too late so becoming an alligator would do you little good!

Marc that is a very sad and yet at the same time inspring story – thank you so much for sharing it here!

The subject of the story is a man, married, with children and a good job. Unfortunately, this gentleman suffered a run of bad luck to rival anything that Hollywood could dream up. He was the victim of a series of accidents that left him in a wheelchair, and badly disfigured by burns over a significant portion of his body. He lost his job, and his wife left him. The costs of medical treatment wiped him out financially. He had turned into your alligator.

I sometimes wonder if, as time passes, we forget the person we fell in love with, and instead start getting hung up on other issues, issues that by comparison are trivial. The reason that I say that is the end of the story: the gentleman in question was possessed of a “never say die” attitude. his personal motto could well have been “can do”, for despite all the tragedy and misfortune that befell him, he didn’t stop.

In addition to all his woes, daily life became a nightmare. Because of his wheelchair, he couldn’t even get into the bank to cash his pension checks. Taking his can do attitude, he got busy, eventually convincing the American government to draft new laws, laws that guarantee that any disabled person can access banks, hospitals and government buildings. He is the man responsible for the wheelchair ramps we now take for granted on virtually every public building that needs one.

Perhaps if his wife had remembered that the man she had married was a man of strength and conviction, rather than just a means to pay the bills and look good doing it, she might have thought twice about divorcing him.

Excellent post, Chelle

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