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I faced my greatest challenge back in October of 2001. I was taking on life, traveling around the world, meeting new friends and exploring cultures while on Semester at Sea, a college program, when I had a swimming accident on the beaches of the Seychelles that left me a quadriplegic. Life just handed me a basket overflowing with lemons. However, it's not the lemons that make the story, it's what I did with them that make this a story of success and determination.
