- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even now, a year later, people ask me about the Wheelchair Photo: what do I think about it? Does it bother me? The honest answer: I don't think about it. I glanced at the photo once, about a week after the bombing. I knew immediately I never wanted to look at it again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I wasn't the face of the victims - three lost near the finish line and hundreds injured - because then everyone would forget about me, and I could recover in peace, and at my own pace.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so much work to do every day to get back to my normal life that I can't afford to be angry, even at the bombers. I can't keep looking backward.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone deals with loss.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the movie, I deal with the loss of my legs and adjusting and trying to become a new person, essentially.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to relate to my family, and to just getting through something - getting through loss in general.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always gonna be some pain, I think, because my body's going to be like, 'Where are your lower legs?'
- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to get to the places I can't get in the wheelchair, you know? I want to stand up.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing great, and I just gotta keep going.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just glad I'm still here.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see my family every day and I'm starting my own family now. I'm very thankful and grateful and there's nothing but positivity and love in my life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know, I'm just a weird person like that, I'm kind of sensitive and I feel bad for people that hurt other people 'cause it's just awful.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know exactly when my life changed: when I looked into the face of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It was 2:48 P. M. on April 15, 2013 - one minute before the most high profile terrorist event on United States soil since September 11th - and he was standing right beside me.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want people to know that I'm OK, and if I can get through something this traumatic, anybody can get through what's going on in their life.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hero.' I've always struggled with that word. I'm just a guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
By some crazy twist of fate I was able to remember the moments leading up to the bombings, and in the end, it helped people. I'm not a hero; I did what any normal person would do.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
For so long I focused on all that I had lost - my legs, my anonymity, even my freedom in a way. I couldn't jump in the car, blast some music and just get away for a bit. I couldn't play basketball with my brothers. I couldn't even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without making it some sort of production.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like being called a hero.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my eyes, there's heroes I look up to. People who saved me - my caretakers, people at Boston Medical Center. My surgeon. The people that pulled me off that ground, who pulled me out. Those are my heroes. The police. The paramedics. Those are the true heroes.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
She liked to drink. Some in the family want to make more of it than that like maybe she needed drinking to take the edge off, but that was the way I always saw it: Mom liked to drink.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a normal guy with a job at Costco, thinking about going back to school. I played sports; I hung out with my friends. I wanted to make something of myself, but I didn't know what.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes walking to the end of the street with my prosthetics feels like running a mile.
- Difficulties
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing that I might be encouraging others by facing my own difficulties is what helps me get out of bed in the morning.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself really lucky every single day. To the point where I feel guilty a lot because I have so much and so many other people don't have what I have.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to be a good dad.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to show people you can overcome a tragedy.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got myself into trouble. I was drinking and partying a lot and it caught up with me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day I just want to be a normal guy, hang out with my daughter, go to school, and work on prosthetics.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why sit, be negative and be sad and depressed? You got to kind of push everything to the side and just focus on just getting better.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really want to do something great. I want to be out there, I want to help people.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I don't fully accept it. It's tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends.
- Nov 07, 2020
I realized I had to work on all aspects of my recovery, the spiritual, mental and physical.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think, 'Maybe I could have a drink or two.' But then I think about it, and I just don't want to. It's just not in the cards. I know what I feel like now that I don't drink. I know what it feels like not to be hungover, trying to put my legs on.
- Bad Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have bad days, days when I just don't want to do anything. Just kind of want to lay in bed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took my hand off the pause button. I had my life on pause. You get stuck, especially when you're drinking and isolating. I started homing in on what I wanted to do as a person. Just try to grow up.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isolation is huge when you go through something traumatizing. You tend to want to isolate and kind of hide in your hole and kind of just go away.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020