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Her Prom Date? A Football Star!

Her Prom Date? A Football Star!

May 27, 2011-- Joslyn Levell couldn't wait to get to school Monday. The eighth-grader became the most talked-about kid at Suncrest Middle School in West Virginia, after scoring a date with Chicago Bears rookie J.T. Thomas for her end-of-school-year formal dance Friday. "I'm not used to the attention, but I like it," Levell said. Joslyn has spina bifida, a condition in which the spine doesn't properly develop, and is confined to a wheelchair most of the time. Thomas' 7-year-old brother, Jared, has autism and rides the same bus as Joslyn and it was their bus-driver who envisioned this memorable moment. "After so many people turned me down, this was so big especially, because he asked me instead of me asking him," Josyln said. (4147 reads)


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