Meet owner Josh Spencer

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my name is Josh Spencer I own the last

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bookstore and I'm a father and a husband

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and a paraplegic before my injury I was

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really active you know I served and

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lifted weights and played volleyball and

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hiked and you know I was very outdoorsy

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I was riding a moped and got hit by a

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car and I was in the hospital for like

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three months they did spinal surgery so

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we can't really move after that and I

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had broken pelvis and collapsed lung and

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broken shoulder and skin ripped off my

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my whole hand

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so yeah there was definitely years of

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struggling with that and trying that out

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and trying to figure out how can i still

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be a man when I'm half paralyzed and how

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can I succeed in this world and how can

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I have a family if I want that I just

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coming to terms with all these things it

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took quite a few years I went through

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depression just everything was a

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challenge everything is difficult you

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know I had to I had to really learn how

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to readjust my mind and change my

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perception so that things that would

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seem difficult wasn't necessarily harder

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it's just different so it took a decade

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I guess for me to to readjust we have

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one daughter named