Show Sy t rH t ti n t 1 nt l r tv ar y ts kJ v. 4 s 's J Ij I j v Yf 0 vr r vr S Lb'S S v V y r Y yA S I Kyt fi 4 t f 4 J f t t 4 V r i y Y J r S v yi v r C X Jn r iI v wn ri r rYr i tar 47 4 t I D Sh t tot to i t iI I I ir it iI r t i 1 ri r 7 a i Nr r i r r J i v t h a wife i Y n Et f n is 1 r ador r i T E y N n r r t y r T iC r. 4 v S Sr f a 4 7 Y ie 7 A n r r r j I r lr R r. r Ii i Lou Kyremes reads 1956 edition of Life Magazine which told the story of how he came to America after his sale of three bananas to a tourist He Sold Three Bananas And Found Way to US U.S. A building technology student named Rafael Lou Kyremes once received a seven-page seven splash in Life magazine It happened in the April 23 1965 edition when Lou was only 10 The story told about how Lou was born with both feet turned inward He lived in the Dominican Republic lic Doctors can correct such things simply by having wear casts But Lou didn't have casts when he was vas a baby With his feet crippled as he grew older he couldn't run He hobbled Lou worked in a candle factory when he was vas 10 and he didn't have to worry about being in an upper income tax bracket He Ee was paid only a week For extra money he often sold bananas on the streets One day he sold three bananas to an American American American Amer Amer- ican tourist and fell into conversation conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion with her She took his picture and returned to the United States to tell ten her friends about the boy A Salt Lake couple adopted him Soon doctors n at t the Shrine Crippled Childrens Children's Hospital were operating on Lou to correct his condition When they finished their work vork Lous Lou's feet were vere straight Last year he became an American American Amer Amer- ican citizen and hes he's proud of it He still occasionally writes his family in the Dominican Republic but admits that hes he's forgetting most of the Spanish he once knew v so well veIl Lou who vho attended high school at Skyline said he doesn't go for sports that might hurt his leg So he didn't go out for football and skiing is something hell he'll do dovi without vi But he likes swimming s and bowling an to do a lot of both when he isn't at school or working at his time part-time job Lou still has a couple of copies I of the Life magazine that told i his story back in 1956 I understood they where going I I i I to put my picture on the cover he said But they used Jayne Mansfields Mansfield's instead To this day he said with a a. kidding grin I cant can't figure out why they chose her instead of me |