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    Exceptional and inspiring

    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    That is astonishing!!!
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    Amazing! I was completely unprepared to learn of her biological sister.
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

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    I really need to get this sound fixed......Ben
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    I'll quickly give you the crib notes Ben.

    She was given up by her parents at birth--for obvious reasons. Her adopted parents raised her to never say "I can't". She had an early love of gymnastics and they supported her in that. As a young girl her hero image was another young lady (I can't recall her name) who was not handicapped. It turned out, as an adult she learned her hero image was her own sister!
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Thanks, Dave...Wow, what a story!......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    Thanks, Dave...Wow, what a story!......Ben
    Always a pleasure Ben.

    I should have included the fact that her hero image was also a gymnastic star!
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    A bit more, Ben. When she was old enough, she searched for her birth parents. As it turned out, Dominique Moceanu is her biological sister!
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    With friends like us Ben---who needs sound
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    With friends like us Ben---who needs sound
    True...I don't believe anything I hear anyway......Ben
    The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...

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