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Juan Agudelo wasn't suppose to make it out of the hospital in Colombia - today he is on his way to living his American Dream of becoming an architect.
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More inside this book you'll find pirate ships dragons still life of bank El -- The beautifully sketch drawings are from one -- within a twenty year old Colombian immigrant a successful student at LaGuardia community college in New York City.
I've been anything -- one of the things that I like this is Allison that it can't be really inspires me what do wants.
Love for drawing may only be surpassed.
By his courage want.
Was born with no arms and walks on prosthetic legs.
But that was a problem of mental -- I -- and sometimes that doesn't have -- into the making it.
If you are healthy you how this is far from -- if -- -- the members you have your opportunity to become.
Someone and that's.
He's had that kind of attitude since he was six years old spending hours days meticulously drawing.
A pencil neatly placed between his right elbow and is only let anger.
And with the flip over and over again -- could race -- fit for any perfectionist.
I know that if I think I came -- you know my skills.
I can't I can thank him becoming very active.
And aspiring architect who almost didn't make it out of the hospital.
-- -- door remembers that moment one of her son's teams is seen behind her.
No but obviously it -- -- That doctors gave me the option to -- him.
I don't know why he told me to study.
I said you know he's.
Despite ridicule and the odds he played his beaver sports soccer.
-- went off -- crawl to -- from school sometimes carried by his younger brother Sergio.
Who he hasn't seen in ten years -- -- sort of the media desperate and determined to find a better life in the US.
And a nonprofit called healing the children answered the call.
-- would get his first set a prosthetic legs.
You get used to have fifteen and you know one of the reasons why I wanted to come to the United States less what's the toughest -- -- -- avenue -- patient.
And has -- I was over I was able to meet all of those course.
He even sold his drawings to help pay for the operations but remarkably.
When given an opportunity -- -- prosthetic arms he said no.
I don't believe that anything I'm sort of sum for the study -- -- -- an enormous support from school there.
You know it's to do any kind of activities that's part of life before I I was -- that night I even to five months hope that it -- that.
Yet through -- all asked what the hardest obstacle has been and he tell you.
Learning English.
I don't really care about my -- -- media team that doesn't have nothing to do with me I just have to keep won't move forward and.
And the chief mine of course.
I mean and how everything.
Everything thanks to a special bond between mother and son.
It's been one Fernando is main inspiration.
He is my inspiration.
Kwan continues his education and is on track to fulfill his dream of becoming an architect he hopes one day make enough money to help his mother.
And eventually reunite with his brother and Columbia.
In New York City Brian -- Fox News.
