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the power of determination

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THE country schoolhouse was heated by an old-  fashioned coal stove. An eight-year-old boy had  the job of coming to school early each day to start  the fire and warm the room before everybody arrived.  One morning they arrived to find the schoolhouse in flames.  They dragged the unconscious boy out of the flaming building.  He had major burns over the lower half of his body and was  taken to a nearby hospital. From his bed the dreadfully burned,  semi-conscious boy faintly heard the doctor talking to his  mother that her son would surely die – which was for the best, really –  for the fire had devastated the lower half of his body.  But the brave boy made up his mind that he would survive.  Somehow, to the amazement of doctors, he did survive.  Again the doctor told his mother that since the fire had almost destroyed the lower part of his body, he was doomed to  be a lifetime cripple with no use at all of his lower limbs.  Once more the brave boy made up his m