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Nick Walczak was paralyzed when he was shot by a fellow student at Chardon High School in February of 2012. These days he is moving forward with his life with the help of a service dog trained by prisoners in an Ohio correctional facility. These photos were shot for a Cleveland Magazine story on Nick and his dog Turner.
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