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Does life give us a second chance? The race had begun and she wondered if she would win this time round. As she lay in the hospital bed, Danielle saw everything flash in front of her eyes.

She was younger, five years younger. A 22 year old Danielle was fresh out of college and three days into her first paycheck from an engineering firm. She was out at a friend's birthday party, but she knew almost no one there. She was sitting in a corner, twirling a straw in her fingers and tossing her brown hair out of her fingers when a stranger approached her.
A blissful year had passed with that stranger, now known as her...