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Overcoming the odds: Quadriplegic finds solace after wreck
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Keith Clark can’t remember the details of the 1990 car accident that left him paralyzed when he was 17, but he remembers being more timid as a youngster and “miserable” during high school. His mother’s and church’s influence helped him open up.
Just a couple of days before Christmas in 1990 and almost two weeks after his 17th birthday, Gainesville native Keith Clark became a quadriplegic. “I was leaving from church and going with a family of friends to North Carolina,” Clark said. “We were on Cleveland Highway, and it was kind of rainy, when we got in an automobile accident.