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Frank Ford had just graduated from the University of Georgia when his entire family was in a terrible car accident. Frank fell in a coma and was given a 50-50 chance of survival. He lived, but now -- at age 43 - he suffers from brain damage and memory loss ... and can sometimes be fidgety and hard to understand. His mother and caretaker Claudia Ford talked to him about his life.
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Provided courtesy of StoryCorps www.storycorps.org, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. This story was recorded in partnership with the Side by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse in Stone Mountain, Georgia and produced by WABE in Atlanta.
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