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Paralympian Rebecca Dubber and journalist Olivia Shivas met nine years ago, like so many teenagers do, at their university’s O-Week. “There was this big line outside the Auckland Town Hall,” Rebecca recalls, “and I didn’t know anyone. And in the line was Olivia, sitting in her wheelchair, too. It was that awkward moment of, OK, there’s another disabled person here: do I be that disabled person that goes and talks to the only other disabled

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