Laura Willingham was a college junior heading to Southwestern Colorado during winter break with friends when she and the driver tried to switch seats while driving. They’d done this many times before, only this time, the two became tangled and the car veered, fishtailed and flipped off the road. All four women were ejected.
Although that moment was years ago, Laura lives with it each day. I didn’t get the chance to photograph her, but I wrote this feature about this Seattle based wife and mother of two, and it’s published in the Fall 2007 issue of The Key. Laura is an amazing person, and her story is one of those profound glimpses into the strength of the human spirit and the capacity to turn pain into hope. Laura’s story has taken her all over the world to help others who wake up one day as she did — an amputee. Her work has brought her here to the D.C. area where she meets soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center coping with limb loss. She is inspirational, hopeful, insightful, giving and strong.
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