Friday, December 30, 2011

Saying Yes to Life

He will have the most amazing set of lungs. Paul Stefan James
lived for only forty-two minutes with a heartbeat, but never taking
a breath. It seemed like a cruel coincidence that his mothers
Chicken Soup for a Mothers Soul calendar had those words to offer
on his birth date. But within about a human gestational period, a
maternity home would open in his name, and the first baby born to a
mother housed there arrived a year after Pauls birthday. This is
his lungs, said Pauls father, Randy James, standing in the hearth
of one of the four maternity homes run by the Paul Stefan
Foundation in the state of Virginia. And it is amazing.

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