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Doctors feared the worst, but this CT teen was able to walk at graduation following devastating crash

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Maggie Vanoni

Jerry Houlihan and Elizabeth Gower were told by doctors last summer to expect the worst.

Their daughter, Eva Houlihan, was in a coma and suffering severe brain trauma from a car crash that killed her boyfriend, Ryan Rutledge. Eva had received emergency craniotomy surgery, yet doctors couldn’t predict how or if she’d recover.