A father-daughter dance can be intimidating to a lot of guys, just ask Darryl Jones, whose daughter asked him to join her on stage at the end of the year performance. “I thought it may be hard, but I didn’t’ think I would be insurmountable,” Jones said. The father had to practice with everyone else, but he didn’t practice like everyone else. When Jones was 10 years old he was diagnosed with bone cancer and was given a choice to have his leg amputated.
“They said if I didn’t, most likely I’d be deceased,” he said. Having his leg amputated didn’t stop him from having that daddy-daughter moment and nailing a complicated spin. He said he did it to help his daughter prove that her dad can do anything others can do. “On this day instead of saying it with her mouth, that my dad can do whatever your dad can do, she was able to show it,” said Jones.
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These days Jones is at the Epic Music Café, a club he’s creating to give teens something positive to do on the weekends.
“Kids could have a positive alternative to something that’s causing them to get into trouble,” he said.
In fact, he spent all the money he’d been saving for a prosthetic leg to get the club going.
Click here to view a gofundme page created for “Darryl’s Epic Dream.”
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