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Journalist Christopher Solomon writes of his interview with Kevin Connolly, a writer, photographer and medal-winning skiier, who was born without legs.

“Is there anything you wanted to know about me?”

“Being in a wheelchair, you're always protected by this chair. There's armor between you and the opposite sex.”

In this book excerpt Mattie Stepanek describes what it is like living with a rare neuromuscular disease. Defying many developmental odds, Mattie recounts highs and lows as he travels toward his tenth birthday, living on what he terms “the edge.”

Following a presidential debate in 2012, Ann Coulter referred to President Barack Obama as a "retard" in one of her tweets. Stephens, a 30-year-old man with Down syndrome wrote this open letter to Coulter in response to her hurtful and uninformed comments.