Comeback kid: Braves honor inspiring Poulos

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ATLANTA — The Braves continued to celebrate Community Heroes Week on Wednesday, when they visited Holy Innocents Episcopal School to honor Andee Poulos, who continues to serve as an inspiration to children who have suffered brain and spinal injuries.

Poulos suffered a massive stroke due to an arteriovenous malformation that ruptured in her brain in 2011. The Atlanta-area teenager did not walk, talk, eat or drink over the next 20 months. But then she willed herself through an intense recovery, and she is now preparing to attend college next year.

Andee is our hero! pic.twitter.com/pvSolwZNSR

— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) August 17, 2016

Andee is our hero! pic.twitter.com/pvSolwZNSR

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