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Where to Go From Here

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Have you ever had plans that didn’t work out? If you’re reading this, I’m sure you have.  Sometimes it just feels like someone pulled the rug out from under you.  That’s how I felt in November of 1998.  I had ran a home daycare for about twenty years and was ready for a change.  A friend had a cleaning business and had asked me if I would be interested in cleaning with her.  So I had given notice to my daycare parents and after they had found new caregivers, I decided to help my friend and see if this was a change I wanted.  After a week of physical activity that I wasn’t used  to my back was aching.  My oldest daughter was 18 at the time and she had offered to give me a back rub.  I was laying on the floor and after she had finished, she stood up, lost her footing and her knee came down on my spine.  Then a month later, I was in an auto accident.  Someone had attempted to beat me through an intersectio...