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My Role ModelMy late friend Rita snapped her spine in an auto accident when she was eighteen, about to graduate
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My Role Model My late friend Rita snapped her spine in an auto accident when she was eighteen, about to graduate from high school. Her graduation present was intended to be a trip to Hawaii with her younger sister. Instead, she spent the summer and most of another year after high school in hospitals and rehab centers learning to become a quadriplegic. When she finally got home the first thing she asked her parents was, "When can I go to Hawaii?" A few months later her sister wheeled her onto an airplane and they were off. The extended family was no doubt consumed by anxiety as they watched Rita's plane take off. The trip, they were sure, would be a disaster. As it happened, nothing in Rita's life after the accident was a disaster. Her quadriplegia eventually killed her, in her early forties, and she spent whole years of her life...
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