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The Seven Longest Yards: Our Love Story of Pushing the Limits while Leaning on Each Other
This memoir, co-written by CaringBridge user Chris Norton and his wife, Emily, precedes a 2021 documentary titled, “7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story,” about how the couple’s lives changed in response to a spinal cord injury in 2010 that left Chris par
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‘7 Yards’ at Length: 3 Questions With Chris Norton
A documentary based on the life of CaringBridge user Chris Norton, whose walk across the stage at college graduation in 2015, after a spinal cord injury, inspired millions, began streaming in February 2021 on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV, and in M
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Jeff Edwards: Do the Best You Can, With What You Have
Jeff Edwards of Herman, MN, fell from roofs and crashed dirt bikes as a kid, parachuted into dangerous places with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and faced potential harm for 13 years as a sheriff’s deputy and SWAT-team marksman. So breakin
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For Passenger in Drunken-Driving Crash, Healing is ‘Forever-Long Journey’
Fourteen years after barely surviving a drunken-driving crash in which he was a passenger, Sean Carter of College Station, TX, still closes his emails with the words, I will talk. I will walk again.” And if you’ve ever met Sean, you wouldn’t bet aga
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After Spinal-Cord Injury, ‘Protect and Serve’ Takes New Shape
Jeff Edwards of Herman, MN, fell from roofs and crashed dirt bikes as a kid, parachuted into dangerous places with the U.S. Army’s 82 Airborne Division and faced potential harm for 13 years as a sheriff’s deputy and SWAT-team marksman. So breaking h