‘A MIRACLE' RETURN
After being on brink of death, boy is welcomed back at school

 
Jesse Olivarez
Published: January 30, 2008

A SIGN held up at Harvest Hills Elementary School on Tuesday said it all.

“Welcome Back Casey,” it read in crayon scrawled on a piece of blue cardboard. “You're a Miracle.”

More than two months after collapsing outside the principal's office at Harvest Hills Elementary School, 10-year-old Casey Amend defied doctors and returned to class Tuesday.

Casey , a third-grader at Harvest Hills in the Putnam ...


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