Photos: Life after mom's accident

by Mara Fink, Minnesota Public Radio
December 31, 2009

Every New Year, the Fink family of St. Louis Park loads up the car with cross-country ski gear and heads up North. These days, they make the trip minus one pair of skis. Eleven years ago, Mara Fink's mom fell on a ski trail and was paralyzed from the neck down.

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