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Katy's always been a deep soul Katy was
a deep soul when she was a young kid she
started playing soccer when she was
about four years old
and she was a very aggressive soccer
player take a while for her to warm up
to people but once she did they were
they were best buddies
it's probably very difficult for you to
think about and to talk about back to
when you were what was like
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when I got to Robert's house she was
sitting in a big fluffy chair with her
legs over it and she was texting and I
went over to her and I said how you
doing and she just kind of shrugged her
shoulders like a teenager sometimes will
and I didn't feel an alarm I just felt
like my girl had gotten hurt I remember
we were walking up and we heard this and
I got it loud but then I walked in and I
looked in the chair and she wasn't in
the chair didn't get alarmed then I
walked to the kitchen looked went on his
back patio little porch No
and I saw the bathroom door shut twisted
the door and I said Katie you okay
and she didn't answer my son picks me up
and takes me through the living room
outside in the yard and and just stands
me there and says mom Katie got my gun
and I don't know she's hurt
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she'll never eat she'll never drink
she'll never bathe herself she'll never
converse she'll be a vegetable
she'll just be in a skilled facility for
the rest of her life as I said I'm not
ready to let go my daughter I just not
you know I mean you don't in that moment
you think you're gonna have the great
courage and stamina but you're just as
feeble as a feather in the wind your
heart is in your throat but yet out of
the depths of your of your gut your soul
your heart no your we're not going to
let go
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haha oh so cool was that a big decision
to make
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this absolute for sure
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I think I was trying to look for old
characteristics if I could see anything
from the pre-accident Katie of the
pre-injury I don't think I did it was
very surreal
I remember thinking where is Katie you
know at the same time so grateful that
she's alive and so grateful that she
didn't have to walk around the rest of
her life without a face but it was hard
I I grieved her old face a lot I have to
be honest Katie do you still think about
her longed for the things that you
wanted when you were 18 like to meet
someone and fall in love and I can see
you smiling now of course this is not
the story I would have written for her
but I feel like there's a reason if
she's here there's a lot to learn
there's a lot in this whole story with
Katie but I don't think her life is over
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one one-on-one talk one more come on
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you
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