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When You Gotta Dance …

She’s All About That Chair

In her viral Youtube parody of “All About That Bass,” Heather Schouten sings, “Yeah it’s pretty clear, these legs don’t work no more, but I can roll it, roll, swiftly across that floor.” And the chorus? “I got that vroom vroom that all the boys chase, and all the right spokes in all the right places.” Her good friend Nia Williams helps her out by dancing in the background and providing the occasional prop.

The parody, “All About That Chair,” has danced the bandwidth from AOL (yes, there still is an AOL) to Reddit (of course), ViralViralVideos.com, TheMighty.com, GossipGangsta.com and even the U.K.’s “Guardian.” Well done, girls.

A Para Stands for His Wedding’s First Dance

Joey Johnson, injured in a motorcycle accident two years ago, simply wanted to stand up and dance with his wife, Michelle, at their wedding. With the help of his groomsmen and a low-tech harness he cooked up for the event, that’s just what the Fishers, Ind., para, did — he danced his bride to “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri.

It was a surprise for his wife — and according to some who know him, the bigger surprise is that Joey can keep a secret. His new mother-in-law helped by talking Michelle into returning to the bridal suite after cutting the cake. When she came back and saw him waiting to dance with her, “ my stomach dropped and I still get goose bumps just thinking about it,” she told CNN.

The couple married on June 28, but a video of their dance began circulating widely around Veterans Day as the couple met at a Miranda Lambert concert not long after Joey, an Army sergeant, had returned from a 10-month tour in Afghanistan (vimeo.com/99466249). CNN has a nice photo gallery: www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/living/paraplegic-vet-first-dance/.