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1:34Now PlayingPaul Martin faced his fears and danced at his daughter's wedding in the wheelchair he's been in for the last 17 years. He hasn't stopped dancing since.
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It had been 17 years since Paul Martin had danced. His daughter’s wedding was coming up and he knew the father-daughter dance meant a lot to Brittany. But he was worried.
It’s not that he was a bad dancer. Paul used to be a great dancer. He used to dance all the time with his kids. But now Paul is in a wheelchair. And he didn’t know if he could pull off a wheelchair dance in front of so many wedding guests. “I didn’t want to look silly,” Paul said. “I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to do it well.”
When Brittany Dejean was twelve years old, her father and brother were in a car accident. “My little brother was killed instantly and my dad broke his neck and became a quadriplegic,” said Brittany.
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