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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but of forging ahead and grabbing life by the horns despite the fear.
“Lee did his damnedest to take care of me while I healed, but nothing made quite as much of a difference as the day he looked at me and said, “I love you so much it makes me want to cry.” Pain or no pain, walker or no walker, I’d never felt so powerful and so invincible in my life as I did in that moment. I still relive it, and it still fills me up.”
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“If it’s meant to work out, it will. If it isn’t, it will just make me available for what I’m supposed to be doing instead.”
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“Don’t cry because you think your best days are gone. Smile because you had them in the first place.”
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“In the end, I’ve come to the conclusion that as long as I’m comfortable with myself, my work, and my life, I don’t feel compelled to apologize for the fact that this is how old I am, and this is what I look like.”
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“There's no way to prepare for what somehow felt so sudden. He was here. Then he wasn't. He never would be again. And there was nothing I could do about it.”
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