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"'As uplifting as it is sad. A beautiful book which teaches us to live every minute and appreciate what we have.' – The Times   Andreea is thirteen and looking forward to taking part in a Romanian dance performance on a trip to Paris with her friends. She skips school one day and gets in a car with a boy she doesn't know. They have a terrible crash which leaves her paralysed from the neck down. At thirteen she is forced to confront the feeling of losing her entire reality in just one moment. This is the story of the operations, the hospitals, the friendships, the long waits, the pain, and the discovery of what it means to be courageous. In this ""beautiful"" memoir (The Times), Andreea shares her inner journey which led her to re-evaluate what really matters and which is bound to make us reflect on how much we take for granted in our own lives."

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You cannot read this book without feeling the pain in every particle of your own body and without rejoicing when a patched soul is reborn from its own despair like the phoenix bird. When suffering meets victory, intertwining in the most mysterious way, it will give birth to the most beautiful feeling - Courage. -- Laura Fierbinteanu, psychotherapist

You cannot read this book without feeling the pain in every particle of your own body and without rejoicing when a patched soul is reborn from its own despair like the phoenix bird.  When suffering meets victory, intertwining in the most mysterious way, it will give birth to the most beautiful feeling - Courage. -- Laura Fierbinteanu, psychotherapist

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Andreea Lichi is from Bacau, Romania.  When she was thirteen, her spine was broken and her spinal cord severed.  She is now a psychology student, the author of Porcelain Soul and a model for Atipic Beauty, a fashion enterprise celebrating the diverse forms of beauty in those with disabilities.

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