In the spring of 1995, actor Christopher Reeves approached the third jump at a cross-country riding event in Culpepper, Va., aboard his horse “Buck.” The horse balked at the relatively low 3-foot fence, and Reeves went flying over it, landing on his head. The fall crushed his first and second vertebrae and destroyed the connection between his brain and the rest of his body. Despite an attempt to fix the spinal cord injury with heroic surgery, Reeves remained paralyzed from the neck down...
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