Filipina with upside-down feet walks for 1st time
July 3, 2008 By VERENA DOBNIK , Associated Press Writer
Jingle Luis, a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines who was born with severely clubbed feet, steps in to an elevator at New York's Montefiore Medical Center under the watchful eye of Dr. Terry Amaral, Wednesday July 2, 2008. Doctors took off her post-surgical casts and replaced them with special support braces and her first pair of shoes that allowed her to take her first unaided steps. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
(AP) -- A Filipino teenager who came to New York so doctors could perform surgery to untwist her severely clubbed feet took her first unaided steps Wednesday in pink-and-white sneakers - the first shoes she's ever worn.
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