Gooch & the Motion
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by Gary Wien
This New Year’s Day will be
15 years to the day that Ryan
Nelson’s life changed forever.
The Salem County musician
crashed his pickup truck head
first into a tree, smashing his C7
vertebra, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. Doctors
told him he died three times
on the helicopter ride to the
hospital. He would move on
to a second hospital for spinal
cord surgery and a third for
rehabilitation. It was there that
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