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"What would you do if you were seventeen years old and broke your neck? Steve Fiffer had his whole life ahead of him in December 1967 when he fractured his fifth cervical vertebra in a wrestling accident at school, shattering his dreams. The diagnosis was quadriplegia, and his parents were told that he would never walk again. Within five months he was out of the hospital, within seven he was on crutches, and within nine he was beginning his freshman year at Yale University.
And most remarkable of all, he never lost his wisecracking sense of humor or his hunger for all that life has to offer."--BOOK JACKET.
"Three Quarters, Two Dimes, and a Nickel is Steve Fiffer's story of his coming of age, and of how he created a normal life for himself despite his injury.
We join him around the dinner table as he rebuilds his once distant relationship with his father and gains a new appreciation of their bond; we agonize with him as he tries to find true love (or at least lose his virginity) despite his self-consciousness about his physical awkwardness, and we join him at the Lawson YMCA in downtown Chicago, where he rebuilds his body under the watchful eye of the manic physical-fitness coach Dick Woit."--BOOK JACKET.
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Three quarters, two dimes, and a nickel: a memoir of becoming whole
1999, Free Press
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Three Quarters, Two Dimes and a Nickel: A Memoir of Becoming Whole
1999, Free Press
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