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At the age of 8, I arrived in Australia from Italy...
Four days before my 16th birthday, we had our walls painted in our family house...
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I had surgery when I was 19 years old to remove most of my cervix due to a finding of pre-cancerous cells...
I was involved in a car accident that in a less than a split second took everything from me...
I arrived in the operating room for an external tumour located between the vaginal mesh and the intestines, and went out via the uterine opening...
I was home in my bed when I suffered from septic shock...
I was swimming in a flooded gravel pit with a girl who was a friend...
I was surfing on a fine winter's day...
I was a Deputy Sheriff responding to an active shooter...
I was in school, skipping class with two of my friends by hiding in the bathroom waiting for teachers to leave the hallway...
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I began the morning throwing up in the toilet...
While working for a private security company as an armed guard at a New Orleans Public Library...
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