History: Summer of 1952, at age six, Paul Alexander contracted Polio and became paralyzed for life. At its peak - “Every time I’d make a friend in the ward, they’d die.” Today Alexander is alive at 74, and one of the last people in the world still using an iron lung. [700 × 875 ]

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