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foreign [Music] she loved it it was her absolute passion [Music] senior year in December
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I started feeling a little off I was dropping things showed up at my work at six o'clock dragging her leg going mommy
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something's really wrong something's wrong I don't know what's happening I said Mom I'm really scared
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[Music] we rushed her to the hospital and they started pricking her leg and she couldn't feel it and her heart rate
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started going crazy oh my gosh [Music] Pam that night I was paralyzed on my left side couldn't talk couldn't swallow
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blind in my left eye [Music] my life just end it again I was 18 trying to go off to college do
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cheer in college and that was never going to happen for me I couldn't feed myself anymore she had
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to relearn all of that [Music] after she could talk again she turned to me and said
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kidnapping was a piece of cake compared to this [Music] and we just heard this huge the sound
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just the biggest noise from behind us and we I turned to look and just saw three people they're all lined up one
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right after the other just rushing in running in the door that like squat style and they had their guns and they
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were all in black they said you're going to rob the bank for us or we will kill you and your
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daughter will be first [Music] tell him I'd be right back everything's gonna be fine
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be brave Mommy that was the last thing she said before I walked out to go to the bank
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did you feel Brave no [Music] I brought my teller in the vault with me and said I'm getting ready to clear out
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this fault or my daughter and I are gonna die and you whispered to her I have Dynamite on my back yeah I whisper
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I pulled my shirt up and then you just opened up the duffel bag and started shoveling in money I did my heart was
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racing [Music] foreign [Music] 's going to be there I don't know if she's going to be alive when I get there
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and I went to open the door and I was just screaming and hello hello it was eerily silent
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and I just heard Bria and I remember screaming we're back here we're back here what was that like to hear and see
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her oh my gosh she was alive I did it we did it we didn't die [Music] a lot of people coming out of this would
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want to just forget about it put it behind them but you and your mom talked openly about it yes and I think it was
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the best decision for us showing people that it's not always the end-all be-all when something bad
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happens to you you can come out of it stronger do you think in some way what happened
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to you when you were seven prepared you for battling Ms yes I think it made me strong enough to go through what I went
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through with MS she wrote her college essay from her hospital room from her wheelchair it is
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my hope that my college experience and said I'm going to college I'm going to be the first person in my family to
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graduate college no matter what I now know that there is no time to waste life can change so suddenly
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[Music] she fought tooth and nail every single day for every single step she took she
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walked out of the hospital [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] she relapsed three times her first year
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in college and had to come home but she did it teaching her how to get her foot to stay on the line lift your knee up
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ready go so they told you you never walk again yeah I would never walk again never see
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again never anything like that and I would say I beat the odds yet again yes exactly
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