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Daniel Borough, age 17, is a paraplegic who has been in a wheelchair most of his life. When he was 3 he was in a car accident with his parents, which ended up with his becoming disabled. He has been brought up in a well off family but seems to be very alone at tim ....

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.... absolutely sick of them. Here I am wheeling through the shopping centre just wanting to go to the music store to pick up that new CD I wanted. But as usual I have to deal with being stared at continuously by these narrow-minded people who just think of me as some kind of retard. I don’t remember the accident, the car accident that is. I remember growing up in the wheelchair though. Well, for a while when I was young it wasn’t a wheelchair that I had; it was this little skateboard type thing you could say. It used to bother me how I saw kids running around and playing while I was there in my wheelchair. I thought that I had done something wrong t ....