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In this Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 photo, a picture of 7-year-old Mikey Cortez, right, and a recent photo of Cortez with his parents, Paul and Roonie Cortez, and grandmother Nellie are displayed at a funeral service during a funeral service for Mikey Cortez in Murietta, Calif. As his 7-year-old son Mikey lay in a hospital bed on life support, the victim of a drunk driver who had smashed into the car he was riding in, Paul Cortez took the boy's hand and made a solemn promise to God: If his son survived, no matter in what condition, he and his family would always be there for him. Although he would never emerge from the persistent vegetative state his father had found him in that night, Mikey’s family was not only there for him but also gave him a full life. A life, as it turned out, not all that different from anybody else’s, with cross-country family vacations and visits to Disneyland. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Family promises a life for son in vegetative state

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In this Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 photo, a picture of 7-year-old Mikey Cortez, right, and a recent photo of Cortez with his parents, Paul and Roonie Cortez, and grandmother Nellie are displayed at a funeral service during a funeral service for Mikey Cortez in Murietta, Calif. As his 7-year-old son Mikey lay in a hospital bed on life support, the victim of a drunk driver who had smashed into the car he was riding in, Paul Cortez took the boy's hand and made a solemn promise to God: If his son survived, no matter in what condition, he and his family would always be there for him. Although he would never emerge from the persistent vegetative state his father had found him in that night, Mikey’s family was not only there for him but also gave him a full life. A life, as it turned out, not all that different from anybody else’s, with cross-country family vacations and visits to Disneyland. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Family promise gave life to man in 31-year coma

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This 2012 photo provided by Paul Cortez shows Mikey Cortez and his parents, Paul and Roonie Cortez, at a winery in Temecula, Calif. As his 7-year-old son Mikey lay in a hospital bed on life support, the victim of a drunk driver who had smashed into the car he was riding in, Paul Cortez took the boy's hand and made a solemn promise to God: If his son survived, no matter in what condition, he and his family would always be there for him. (AP Photo/Courtesy Cortez Family)

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