The world knew him as 'Polio Paul,' a man kept alive in an iron lung since 1952, but at his funeral Wednesday, friends revealed a man who they called 'a force' whose remarkable life could not be contained by the medical chamber he lived in.Paul Alexander, 78, died a week ago in Dallas, after living in a negative pressure ventilator for 70 years.Since he was struck with polio as a child, Alexander depended on the machine to survive.
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