Walls Are for Leaping Author:Dorothy Pape "By my god I can leap over a wall." Michiko couldn't help laughing at that. The contrast between her limp, useless legs and leaping over a wall was too ludicrous, too impossible. — All her life, since she was crippled by polio at the age of three, Michiko Tamura had faced impossible situations. The adversities suffered by the whole family on on... more »e of the world's remotest islands, her long struggle for education and independence, the extraordianry circumstances of her marriage - all had been insurmountable walls in front of her. But . . . walls are for leaping.« less