up alongside the car that she and is a couple friends were sitting in. she w woke in the hospital. she couldn t walk, chew, swallow or move the right side of her body. she count support her head and the thoughts of it were slow anded. she didn t die. she is trying to cope with life on the other side of this. why did you want to examine her story? i think sometimes it s so easy to focus on the homicide rate, the valley that cities pull together, but beyond those numbers, there are victims who survive and they re forever changed physically, emotionally. the people in those forces that we never hear about. but living k just as difficult. al kyle is another young man you wrote about. we don t all make it to a