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Super Bowl Ad Features Baltimore Paralympian

A swimmer from Baltimore was the star of an ad spot played during the Super Bowl.

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Jessica Long was in a Super Bowl ad Sunday that gave snapshots of her childhood and parents, who were told in a phone call recreated in the commercial that their 13-month old baby would need to have her legs amputated.
Jessica Long was in a Super Bowl ad Sunday that gave snapshots of her childhood and parents, who were told in a phone call recreated in the commercial that their 13-month old baby would need to have her legs amputated. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)

BALTIMORE, MD — A Super Bowl ad told Paralympian Jessica Long’s story of her adoption from a Siberian orphanage by a Baltimore couple during a Toyota advertisement.

The spot, titled “Upstream,” ran during the second quarter of Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast on CBS.

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