Lia Marie Johnson is home in Loudoun County with her family and students five-and-a-half months since the accident that nearly cost her her life.

The 22-year-old preschool teacher was crossing the street during her vacation in Argentina last summer when a car struck her. She was critically injured, and her family was warned she might not survive.

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“My mom called me around 7 in the morning to let me know, like, ‘Hey, your sister’s been in an accident — it’s not looking good,’” her sister, Gella Johnson, told News4 in July. “We were told that they had induced a coma, but it turned out that she was already in a coma once she had gotten there. She had fractured her skull, she had a collapsed lung, and she was thrown at least

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