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I was born from a couple who, after only seeing what was missing from my body, put me up for adoption. I was promptly moved to a nursery, then out of the province. I had undergone many surgeries and hundreds of hours of physical therapy all by the age of two. But this was just the beginning. The beginning of a journey into a world that was seemingly against me.

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Then one day, there’s a shift. My life was changing in a monumental way: I was getting adopted. And not just adopted by anyone. I was adopted by the most amazing two people I could’ve ever asked for, and joined a large and growing family. Raised with the knowledge that I could achieve anything,

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that I was indeed the director of my own destiny. And with that, I pushed forward. Every moment an experience, every experience an opportunity to learn and be inspired.
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As my journey shifts, I see that it is now me changing people’s lives, inspiring others in the same way that I was inspired so many years ago. I am doing what I was put on this earth to do and I realize that maybe the world has in fact, always been with me.

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