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Ruthie Lindsey was just 17 when she was in a devastating car accident, days after being named homecoming queen

Years later, complications from the injury caused debilitating chronic pain that left her bedridden, even after having surgery intended to alleviate the pain

She documented her journey in her memoir, There I Am: The Journey From Hopelessness to Healing, and now helps others work through their pain and trauma

Ruthie Lindsey was a senior in high school when she was in a devastating car accident. The 17-year-old from Saint Francisville, Louisiana, had just been voted her high school’s homecoming queen days before being hit by an ambulance on November 2, 1996.

She broke three ribs, her left lung collapsed and her spleen ruptured. The teen also broke the top two

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