Paul Alexander caught polio in 1952 when he was just six years old, and within days the disease left him unable to breathe on his own. He spent the next 70-plus years in an iron lung, a seven-foot metal cylinder that pushed air into his lungs. Most people would have quit dreaming right there. Paul didn’t. Holding a rod in his mouth, he learned to turn pages and paint. He went to high school, college, and law school and worked for years as an attorney. Later he used that same mouth rod to type out his own autobiography. When he died in March 2024, a friend said Paul would want everybody to know they are capable of great things.
