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Jordan Basile, left, and Matt Ficarra, center, exchange wedding vows Saturday, Oct. 18. 
DEWITT — A man who was paralyzed from the chest down after an accident three years ago walked down the aisle at his wedding this weekend.
Matt Ficarra was able to walk and then stand as he exchanged vows with Jordan Basile in this Syracuse suburb Saturday with the help of a battery-powered robotic exoskeleton called an Ekso. He told the Syracuse Post-Standard he’s been practicing weekly since April to walk with the apparatus.
Ficarra has been paralyzed since he broke his neck in a boating accident in 2011. The couple leaves Monday for a honeymoon in Jamaica.
