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Staff Photographers Shannon McCloskey Janie Arseneaux Katie Catterall Nathan Abbott
Executive Editor Haley Boyce Managing Editor Arianna Sergio
Staff Designers Kami Geron Alex Bracken Milo Hardison Josie Santiago Emma Fullen Audrey Freeland
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Associate Editor Evan Chandler Photo Editor Janie Arseneaux
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hey cut it. They cut it right open, exposing my long underwear underneath. I was beside myself, riding in the back of a bumpy, roaring ambulance with gentle men in uniforms that I had never seen before. For a 4-year-old, those daunting scissors that chopped open my snowsuit were so distressing. That is one of the most vivid memories I have from the day that I almost lost my life. It was soon after my parents’ divorce, early January of 2005. My dad picked me up from my nana and papa’s house, where my mom and I were staying. I was all bundled up, like a marshmallow in boots. I hopped in the car with my dad, and we headed off to the Lake County Fairgrounds to go sledding, as dirty snow crunched underneath the tires. My mom had sent me with her sled; it was black and pink and unnecessarily heavy. Fancher Lake is situated right on the outside of the fairgrounds in Crown Point, Ind., and it has some of the most popular sledding hills in the city. The layer of ice atop the water certainly looked a lot thicker than it was with snow piled on the surface. I tended to have little fear, and just so happened to be awfully quick, as most little ones are. Before my dad knew, I was down the hill on a sled that weighed more than I did. The hill led right to the lake, where I swiftly slid past the bank. I was several yards away on the ice from my dad back on land, who was now witnessing a parent’s worst fear. The ice cracked under
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