{"id":24366,"date":"2011-12-08T18:14:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T01:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/sometimes-its-better-to-be-lucky-than-to-be-good.html"},"modified":"2011-12-09T23:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T06:55:18","slug":"sometimes-its-better-to-be-lucky-than-to-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/sometimes-its-better-to-be-lucky-than-to-be-good.html","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes it's better to be lucky than to be good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazing story. That will be turned, I have no doubt, into an awful Hallmark TV movie. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes you get lucky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShut everything down. This is one of the craziest feel good stories of the year.<\/p>\n

Paralyzed from the hip down since she was 13, Monique van der Vorst was an accomplished paralympian cyclist. She won two silver medals in the handcycling road at the Beijing Paralympics. Last year, she was in an accident and fell off her wheelchair. While recovering from the trauma, her feet started to tingle and miraculously she began to move them again. She spent months in the hospital and in the rehabilitati…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Amazing story. That will be turned, I have no doubt, into an awful Hallmark TV movie. #ddtb Reshared post from +Les Jenkins Sometimes you get lucky. Embedded Link Paralympian Eyeing The Olympics After Crash Miraculously Un-Paralyzes Her Shut everything down. This is one of the craziest feel good stories of the year. 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