Article: AUTISM MAY HAVE LED LOST BOY OUT OF SWAMP.(News/National/International)

Byline: Rick Bragg The New York Times

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- Taylor Touchstone, a 10-year-old autistic boy who takes along a stuffed leopard and pink blanket when he visits his grandmother, somehow survived for four days lost and alone in a swamp crawling with poisonous snakes and alligators.

He swam, floated, crawled and limped about 14 miles (his feet, legs and stomach covered with cuts from brush and briars) that rescuers believed to be impassable. His journey was lighted at night by thunderstorms that stabbed the swamp with lightning.

People in this resort town on the Gulf of Mexico say they believe Taylor's survival is a miracle, and ...

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