Here’s a story that will either make you feel wonder at the power of the human spirit, or terrible about yourself because you are fat and lazy and can’t accomplish anything with a working everything: 48-year old George Holscher of Chesapeake, Virginia, bowled a perfect game.The rub: He’s been paralyzed from the waist down and wheelchair-bound since he was 25.… when he rolled his perfect game Nov. 26, he became the second person ever to bowl 300 from a wheelchair.“I know I said I can’t feel my knees, but let me tell you, they were weak,” Holscher said of how he felt after bowling a 300.“When you’re on a streak like that, the whole house gets quiet,” Holscher said. “Everyone else stops bowling. It gets tense.” (via UPI.com)This story is particularly inspiring to me, because I can’t reliably get the ball to the pins without Cosmic Bowling bumpers. I think my favorite part of the story are the anecdotes that different reporters have gotten, including this amazing one from The Virginian-
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