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Jun 19, 2003

"The mother's heart is a child's schoolroom." --Henry Beecher

He couldn't button his shirt or tie his shoe laces. Bill Porter wasn't your typical door to door salesman. With cerebral palsy and a crippled body, he was declared ineligible to work or do much of anything else; but his mom was unrelenting in her belief that her son would rise above his limitations. She was right. It took him four false starts before he found the courage to ring the first door bell. And on the first day, they all told him to go away. But that was decades ago. Now, he's the lone door-to-door salesman in a staff of 44,000! More recently, he even had a movie made about Bill Porter -- 'Door to Door'.