Boston Strong Dancer
On April 15, 2013 two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon finish line.
As someone who is from Massachusetts, the Boston Marathon Bombings really hits close to home for me and it's still kind of hard to talk about. I knew people who were at the finish line, I knew people in the marathon, and I knew people who were in the area before the bombs went off. In fact a dear friend of mine who was actually in the area of one of the bombs, left 10 minutes before it detonated and was just out of range of all the shrapnel. It's all incredibly surreal still and quite a major and touchy topic for everyone here, especially now that the Marathon Court Trials are going on.
But today I am not going to discuss the bombing, but a beautiful story from one of the bombing victims. Adrianne Haslet-Davis was a dancer from Boston. She was walking on the sidewalk when she was hit with shrapnel and had part of her left leg amputated. As a dancer her career was pretty much over. That didn't stop her from trying to dance again! After several long months of recovery she was given a prosthetic leg made by MIT designed to help her dance.
But today I am not going to discuss the bombing, but a beautiful story from one of the bombing victims. Adrianne Haslet-Davis was a dancer from Boston. She was walking on the sidewalk when she was hit with shrapnel and had part of her left leg amputated. As a dancer her career was pretty much over. That didn't stop her from trying to dance again! After several long months of recovery she was given a prosthetic leg made by MIT designed to help her dance.
In March of last year her dream to dance again was fulfilled. She performed at the 2014 TED Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia with her ballroom partner for the first time since the bombings.
Read the full article here.
Then again yesterday, she danced across the Boston Marathon Finish Line.
The dance was part of a commercial for Oberto beef jerky and will begin airing this summer. The purpose of it was for the hope that stories like this will inspire others to take the steps on their own journey towards self-improvement.
Read the full article here.
Then again yesterday, she danced across the Boston Marathon Finish Line.
The dance was part of a commercial for Oberto beef jerky and will begin airing this summer. The purpose of it was for the hope that stories like this will inspire others to take the steps on their own journey towards self-improvement.
Read the full article here.
~SarChi
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