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Article: Built with love
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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A family needed a wheelchair-accessible house.
A community said no problem
By Susan Misur
Register Staff
NORTH BRANFORD -- Mary Caruso's daughters, Sam and Alex Bode, sat
at their kitchen table Friday afternoon poring over an architect's
drawings of an addition to their home.
Caruso stacked fresh-baked cookies and brownies on a plate and
the two family dogs barked for attention, but Sam, 23, and Alex, 19,
were engrossed in the building design and measurements -- which
would seem surprising if the renovation wasn't about to change their
lives.
The sisters must use wheelchairs because of a degenerative neuro-
muscular disease called Friedreich's ataxia. Construction work at
their house over ...