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"Excuse me  ma'am,"  says Sarah looking up at the women at the counter, "Do you know where the elevator might be? "   " Oh!"  says the  employee ,  somewhat startled by the situation, "it's right down the hall."   There Sarah was, just sitting in her wheel chair, yet the "TAP" reacted as if she had  seen an alien.   ***   We've  all had those days where we wake up just knowing it's going to suc k. I  realize  they   happen , but shockingly,  they  occur   quite a lot. And I say shockingly because we have been privileged in countless ways. Looking at Troy High alone, we benefit from an education system that has proven to bring success. Why then do we complain d ay in and day out when  people all around us, "nearly 1 in 5" to be exact, suffer from some sort of disability? We have no right to complain because basically everything that we ever wanted has been given. For the disabl...