Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 27, 2018 16:27:36 GMT -5
Remarkable story of the triumph of the human spirit.
Amanda Agana always had an answer ready to go. She’d slide off her track pants and knew her running shorts couldn’t hide her past.
“Where are your scars from?” someone would inevitably ask.
“Oh, well, I grew up in Africa,” she’d say with a shrug. “I fell off a lot of trees.”
She chuckles at it now. Last time she counted, there were more than 100 marks dotting her legs, arms, hands and back. “Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here,” says the 21-year old Agana, a middle-distance runner for Navy’s track team, her index finger tracing a map of childhood pain along one leg. None of the marks and scars were from falling out of trees.