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Coming up next on PassionStruck. When I first lost my legs, everybody told me what I couldn't do, that I wouldn't be able to snowboard again, that they didn't know what my life would look like either. They didn't know if I could go back to work as a massage therapist or I'd be able to wear the things I want to wear my high heels or, and people would actually say, I'm so sorry. Really, you lost your

like nurses would say that. I am so sorry. It was just such a sad thing. And I didn't want

this kind of story to be created for me, like this identity that I'm supposed to now take on

because now I have a disability and that

and it looks a certain way, I didn't want that to define what my life was going to look

like.

I wanted to figure out what my life was going to look like.

Welcome to Passion Struck.

I'm your host, John Miles.

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