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Sometimes the taunts and teasing from other children make Stevie a little shy. Acceptance of the condition he has known since he was an infant isn’t easy to come by and often makes him feel like an outcast.

Although Stevie appears to have worked out some of the ways of dealing with taunts and teases from other children, he is still alone at times and when he can’t find other children to play with him either because of his appearance, or because…

Like most children his age, Stevie is out to impress the girls, like classmate and neighbor Johanna Lopez, who Stevie tries to impress with his incredible hulk imitation. She appears baffled not by this looks, but by his behavior.

Although he started out the race with a friend who challenged him to see how fast he was--a little slow--Stevie caught up to and beat his challenger, “just to show ‘em I could beat him.”

Just like other 9-year-olds, Stevie loves a trip to McDonald’s where he isn’t too shy to look over the counter to make sure the clerk is ringing up his and his buddies order correctly.

The story of Stevie Jacques is the story of how a little boy copes with effects of his disfigurement. It it not the story of a burn victim. The fire that scorched his body happened eight years ago when he was an infant. Without the aid of his…

Appearing to be riding the crest of a big wave of light, two girls play on a simple piece of aluminum that illuminates just to the right angle of light at the end of the day.

Mike Glowka loves sports and hates being alone. To keep from being alone, he participates in all the sports in town by being manager and official fan for almost all of Middletown’s teams. On days when his 75 years get to him, he watches…

Lester Williams of Blues Old Stand, Alabama, looks over his crop of dried corn that rests on his front porch and says the only way he salvaged any crop at all was to pick it early and pray.

Paul Hobson isn’t a waiter, but he was waiting for a table to be gently lifted from his head after carting it across campus. He found the guilotine method of carrying the table the easiest way to get it from the school to the theater where it…