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Sharing Lessons Of Resilience, 5 Years After The Boston Bombing

Roseann Sdoia lost her right leg in the 2013 marathon bombing. She now works to empower others facing challenges because she so vividly remembers being "in those shoes."
Sdoia signs a copy of her book <em>Perfect Strangers.</em>

Survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing are gathering Sunday for a solemn wreath laying ceremony marking five years since two bombs planted near the finish line killed three and injured hundreds more.

One of those attending the ceremony is Roseann Sdoia, who lost her right leg in the blast. It's still sometimes hard, she says, to comprehend how her annual outing to watch the race on that sunny Spring day changed her life forever.

"I still wake up in the morning five years later and go 'Oh my God, I don't have a leg,'" she says. "Even though I live it every day, and every day I have to put this stupid [prosthetic

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