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What would you do if you woke up in a bed surrounded by strangers with not only your memory wiped clean, but no understanding of where or who you were?When I was eighteen, this happened to me! I guess you can say it was as if I was literally just born, but in an eighteen-year-old's body. The Big Bang that created my new life was not caused by two people coming together in love, but by a car hitting a power pole. On the 16th of November, 2001, I was coaxed into a car that ended up travelling at 160 km when it hit a power pole, blacking out my small country hometown. On this night I died for the first time, and I would die another six more times after that. I survived and had to relearn everything again while being left with lifelong disabilities and pain. I wish I could say this was the most tragic event I have had to endure, but it was probably one of the easiest to deal with. I have mastered a lot of coping strategies to assist me in what I have lost from making a harmless decision that most teenagers would have made. I had to endure being tortured for three years while in a violent domestic relationship. The worst ordeal I have lived through was when for a two-year period I watched my beautiful, strong daughter slowly die.At times I even found myself unsure of how to survive this awful part of my life. Writing my memoir for you, my dear reader, is how I found the strength to conquer each tragedy with determination, rainbows, and lots of sparkles. Come with me on a suspenseful walk through my life as I draw on strength from my past encounters and shed some light on domestic violence, mental illness, and disabilities.

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I guess in a few ways I can relate to a vampire. However, I definitely didn't get any cool abilities or strengths from dying and coming back to life seven times. Truthfully, I'm starting to feel a little ripped off because I have changed so much since my death day, but not in a good way. I guess it's almost as if it's happened to me in reverse: I have lost abilities instead of gaining them! I'm certainly clumsier, I can be aggressive at times when I was once placid, and some things I do and say can make people split their sides with laughter. It wasn't easy being eighteen and having to start my life again as though I were just born. And now all I have is a series of vivid memories and flashbacks, in no particular order. This is my memoir. Step inside my head as I go through all the trials and tribulations to my achievements, finding little bits of happiness in a roller-coaster life of drama and disasters. I wrote this book to give you an insight into what it's like to live with an Acquired Brain Injury, being in and escaping a domestically violent relationship, and having a disabled child to care for-who I then lost. If I can help anyone else who is living with these same experiences, or knows of someone who is, then I am yet again convinced that something good has come about from all that I have endured!

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