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Runners and there s so much momentum in that herd, and everyone stopped. there was a little bit of a dead silence right after it happened. there weren t screams for help. there weren t people crying. everybody had their mouths kind of open, like they wanted to say something, to scream, and nothing was coming out. their eyes were wide open and they were just in faraway trances, as though they were in complete shock. chris and kayla, natalie and her dad were all safe. hundreds of others were not as lucky. it was a process not fast enough for me to say, wait a minute, that guy s leg is gone, that woman doesn t have a leg. where is her arm? it was scattered. it felt like 30 feet across just of carnage, blood, body parts. then, what started as a race to a finish became a desperate race against time to save the lives of the gravely wounded. ....
Doctors told chris biagetti, this might be a day her daughter wouldn t see. they said her prognosis, maybe she ll be ten, if we were lucky. the mitochondrial disease that weak end her, made he terribly ill. she needed lots of medical procedures. those first few years were hard, she needed to have medical procedures, time in the hospital, lots of pneumonias. are to the kay girls, kayla s health challenges, benign tumors, the laws of kayla s father, chris husband to a heart attack at age 42. but this would be a joyful day. a day to make history as a mother/daughter wheelchair team. this was the first time in the 117 years with the boston marathon that a female duo team actually entered and was going to complete the race. well, if we re going to start ....
Steve silva and john elias were standing nearby watching the finishers. you see cheers, you see people yelling yes ! there s a lot of raw emotion at that finish line. a lot of those are people we know from the neighborhood. we re literally rolling of people coming across the line and high-fiving and cheering them on. everybody cheers them on. natalie knew she was close. so there s this marker that every runner looks for in a race and if you re a marathoner, you know what it means. it says, you have one mile to go. my dad and i had passed that marker. chris and boyfriend brian were already within sight of the finish line. the crowds were just absolutely crazy and, you know, everybody was cheering and kayla s doing her hill shaky shake. steve was rolling on the finishers. then ....