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“I sympathized with elderly people who lived inside flesh and bones that couldn’t keep time with their soaring spirits. I knew now what it meant to be in pain every single moment of the day and how it could change someone’s entire personality.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

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