{"id":227975,"date":"2020-07-31T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=227975"},"modified":"2020-07-29T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T20:27:14","slug":"best-friends-small-survival-graduated-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/best-friends-small-survival-graduated-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Best friends given small chance of survival have graduated from high school"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Best friends Jordan Granberry and Odin Frost met at school when they were just three years old. Each of them had been deprived of oxygen at birth and were given very low chances of survival. However, despite the odds stacked against them, the two graduated from high school on July 18, side by side as they have been for the last 15 years.<\/p>\n

Odin’s father, Tim Frost, shared two pictures of the boys on Reddit<\/a>\u2014one from age 3 when they first met at Wayne D. Boshears Center for Exceptional Programs and the second at their graduation at age 18. It was an accidental recreation of the photo from the day they met.<\/p>\n

“Their very first day of school, they were put in the same classroom,” Tim Frost told CBS News<\/a>. “They pretty much had this immediate bond. Neither one of them could speak, but wherever the other one was, they were always together.”<\/p>\n

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Best friends given a two percent chance of survival at birth defied the odds to re-create their first day of school photo — at their graduation. The parents of Odin Frost and Jordon Granberry, both 18, were told their sons would never walk and would live in a "vegetative state" – if they survived their early years. But the pair exceeded expectations to make it to school – and an adorable photo shows them on their very first day, aged three, sharing a seat. From that day forward the pair were best buds – sharing a special bond despite being nearly completely non-verbal. And this week they re-created that photo on their last day at school, when they officially graduated high school and collected their diplomas.<\/a><\/p>\n

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