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99% Invisible

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How to Get a Chair Up a Staircase

Ed roberts graduated from high school, then from a local community college. But when he wanted to go on to berkeley in 19 62, the university at first said no,. He was just too disabled. And where could he safely live? The iron lung, which he still used every night, wouldn't fit in a dorm room. Finally, somebody suggested housing him at the campus hospital. A patient's room remade into a living space for ed and all his equipmented roberts five, two tpe one, september, fifteenth.

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