Chapter 4

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4 Liam The questions plagued me for a long, sleepless night. What am I going to do? Where to from here? Where do you go after you’ve hit bottom? When the guy-wire snapped and I fell, I experienced the worst terror of my life. My mind was so wrapped in fear that my body shut down. I couldn’t yell, I couldn’t struggle, there was nothing I could do except anticipate my bones shattering as I hit the concrete. And they did. I can still hear the exact crunching noise in my mind when my back broke, and my hip bone crumbled, like a ball of chalk slamming into pavement and crumbling to dust. It took a long time to come out of that place, where I was lying on the concrete and there was only my breath and the pain. But I did. I did what everyone expected. Had the surgeries, the physical therapy,

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