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Plunging Head-First Into Troubled Water

On July 25, 1991, Shawn Meneely's life changed forever, but he remembers very little of the incident that left him paralyzed. "I don't remember actually going into the water, just going off the board," Meneely, now 33, recalled. Meneely went off the diving board into a pool that was only 7½ feet at the deepest point, and hit his head on the incline leading into shallower water. He has done relatively well since then, graduating college and now working in financial services for UBS in...Full Story
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