Two years ago, Rebekah Gregory DiMartino was standing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when a bomb exploded just a few feet in front of her
She underwent countless surgeries over the following year — most of them on her left leg, which was the most mangled from the explosion — but none were particularly successful
In November 2014, she finally amputated the leg. Today, she's running the marathon with a prosthetic replacement
"I wasn't a runner before. I was the person standing on the sidelines," she writes in a post for Vox. "I have to run [this] marathon — for myself, and for everyone watching to see that it's only made me stronger."
Rebekah told ABC News that she started strength training for the marathon a week before her amputation in November. Since then, she's trained five days a week Read more...
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