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Reflections on Identity, Life and Death – Cathy

 

Cathy's physical fitness used to define her, before HF.

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And then my world changed. I used to be a marathon runner and a Spartan fanatic and all those races. The 5K, the 10K all of them. They used to kind of define me. I was the type of person that could go all the way up a mountain without even stopping just because my goal was to do that and now I can’t do that anymore.


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