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“To be honest, I never u thought about him playing football,” his mother Tricia said. > “But that’s Chris’ choice. If he >wants to do something, he’s going to do it. You can’t tell him that he can’t do something.”

That’s the attitude that . Chris carries through life.

“I don’t let my condition affect me,” Chris said “I may not be able to do everything the way .that rd like, but I'm going to find a way to do everything that I , want to do. Tm not going to let Cerebral Palsy get in my way”

The Rappahannock County High School junior does everything that most boys his age can ,do. He hunts, fishes, and even drives an ol’ pickup truck.

“You don’t tell Chris that he can’t do something. We’ve always encouraged him to try • anything that he wants to do,” his step-father Jeff Nicodemus said. “When he first started hunting I was worried about

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