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Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio

Stricken with polio just after his last inoculation for the virus, Gary Presley was a teenager who never walked again and spent months in an iron lung. This honest, biting and beautifully-written memoir profiles his journey--both physically and psychologically as he navigates in a world before the Americans with Disabilities Act. He survives post-polio syndrome with the love of family and wife and refuses to be stereotyped.

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