WHERE ARE THEY NOW: MITCH LONGLEY (BYRON; ANOTHER WORLD)

That’s why Mr. Longley, who suffered a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the waist down in a car accident during his senior year at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, decided to come back to Connecticut to record a CD, “Songs for the Cell,” to benefit stem cell research.

“If we can get beyond the politics and the controversy — much of which is based on ignorance — there’s a really good chance that stem cell science will restore some of the functions I’ve lost, and maybe have me walking again,” Mr. Longley said.

Mr. Longley was discovered by the photographer Bruce Weber after the accident and went on to became a Ralph Lauren model and an actor, first on the daytime soap operas “Another World” and “Port Charles,” and then the CBS series “Judging Amy” and “Joan of Arcadia.”

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