Before Everything Got Hard
Before the 15-year contract. Before the 51 staff. Before the company, the clinic, the disability, the diagnosis nobody could give her.
There was a girl in junior high who painted the school hallway because she felt artistically inspired. Who shot six arrows into a bully's backyard during archery class and got hauled to the principal's office. Who stepped off the track after three laps because she'd already proven her point. Who held a stranger's hand when her bone was sticking out of her elbow and not a single adult moved.
Nobody was paying attention. That's the part that keeps coming up…
The skinny
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