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Apr 5, 2008

"'Miracles have ceased.' Have they indeed? When? They had not ceased this afternoon when I walked into the wood and got into bright, miraculous sunshine, in shelter from the roaring wind." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Miraculous Turn

Doctors have no explanation for why Zack Dunlap is alive. He had been riding his souped-up ATV with some friends on that fateful Saturday, less than a week before Thanksgiving. They had participated in a parade that morning, popping wheelies and impressing the crowd, and then they had gone out riding on their machines. At one point in his ride, things went awry and he flipped his bike and smashed headfirst into the asphalt. 36 hours after the accident, doctors informed a PET scan of his brain and informed his parents that Zack was dead; there was simply no activity, no blood flow at all. Four hours later, rather unexplainably, Zack came alive.