As time passed, she underwent numerous surgeries. She wore diapers until she was 13. And she endured great pain – pain caused by her body and the pain of feeling different, abnormal, somehow wrong.
A word darkened over her life, forming a seemingly permanent label: disabled.
For so long, too long, she heard people’s comments. And she believed them.
However, she also grew up in the small town of Boone, N.C., with good friends and a loving family, including a fraternal twin sister. Together, they instilled a strong Christian faith in her.
Read it all from the local paper..