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Subject: An article from www.miamiherald.comTo: brushingham@...Date: Saturday, June 7, 2008, 10:57 PM

M.E.G. has sent you the following story:Everything is possible, if you can believe. Posted on Saturday, Jun. 07, 2008

Next stop for Dade grad with palsy: Harvard

By KATHLEEN McGRORY

Mintz rolled his electric wheelchair up to the podium in the middle of the stage Friday. He looked down at his white graduation gown and then addressed the crowd, his speech slow and labored.

The teenagers in the audience, buzzing with restless energy minutes earlier, quickly hushed.

In the front row, his parents held hands and smiled: Their son, who will never walk, who they once feared would never even talk, had risen to the top of his Educational Center class -- and was tapped to address the student body at the Pharmed Arena at Florida International University.

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