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Despite being paralyzed and not having any sensation from mid-chest to the tip of his toes as the result of a car crash six years ago that killed his brother and produced a complete spinal cord lesion that left Juliano in a wheelchair, Juliano rose to the occasion, and on this day did something that pretty much everybody that saw him in the six years deemed impossible.

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I love finding, wearing, and more recently, photographing and blogging a different, colorful, crazy outfit for every single occasion.

It's a very rare occasion that you get to actually witness an iceberg rolling.

On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners.

And the reason I'm looking a little bit perplexed in this photograph is I was somewhat frightened, and I was too afraid on this occasion to ask him, having run for an hour through the desert and taken refuge in this house, why he had turned up and wanted to have his photograph taken with me.

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