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This 6-Year-Old Girl With Cerebral Palsy Just Took Her First Steps on Her Own

October 8, 2019

By: Maddie Capron and Christina Zdanowicz

Source: CNN

Parents are usually proud of their children when they take their first steps, but for Lovely Johnson, it made her daughter her hero.

Johnson’s 6-year-old daughter, Love, took her first steps ever last week. Love has cerebral palsy, a group of disorders that affect a person’s ability to move and maintain balance and posture.

She shocked herself and her mother when she decided to try walking without her walker and braces.

“This moment felt like a dream come true,” Johnson told CNN on Monday. “I looked at her the way I looked at her when I gave birth to her. My heart was racing. I saw how excited my daughter was, and I knew a new chapter was about to begin.”

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