A book about hardship, decrepit, secrets and pain. A woman’s journey of overcoming adversity and life’s most difficult challenges. After years of sexual and emotional abuse, LaDonna starts her life on her own with the person she thought was her knight in shining armor until the day he “accidentally" shoots her in the neck, leaving her partially paralyzed for the rest of her life. She became an inspiration to all who knew her by encouraging others to look past their limitations. She learned how to trust and love another, to accept her circumstances, to forgive and start her life anew.
In 1983 life as I knew it would never be the same. My boyfriend pointed a gun at me and pulled the trigger. The bullet penetrated my neck and damaged my spinal cord and in that moment I became an incomplete quadriplegic (C4-C6) confined to a wheelchair for the rest of my life.
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