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University Surprises Mom Who Attended Every Class With Quadriplegic Son

What would we do without our moms? Time and again they show up for us, sacrifice for us, and go above and beyond to show us they love us.
Now one mom is getting recognized for the incredible lengths she went to to make sure her son was able to fulfill his dreams

Marty O’Connor had been out of college for two years when he fell down a flight of stairs and ended up paralyzed. He started doing physical therapy five times a week, which helped him physically, but he felt lost mentally.

That’s when he decided to set the goal of going to grad school, and with a $10,000 annual scholarship from Swim with Mike, an organization started to benefit USC All-American swimmer Mike Nyeholt, who was paralyzed in a motorcycle crash in 1981, it looked like he was on his way to meeting that goal. Read the full story here ▶