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Almost two years ago, on a sunny night in Fairbanks, Alaska I was biking back to my radio station from a reporting assignment. And I was hit by a truck.
I was flown over 350 miles to a hospital in Anchorage with multiple scull fractures and a life threatening hematoma.
My friends and family were worried sick. And this story begins ten days later when I woke up.
But this isn't a story about being lucky to be alive. It's the story about being lucky a truck hit me in the head, about how a very good thing made me slow down and assess my life, about how I finally understand the ending of the The Wizard of OZ.
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Piece Description
Almost two years ago, on a sunny night in Fairbanks, Alaska I was biking back to my radio station from a reporting assignment. And I was hit by a truck. I was flown over 350 miles to a hospital in Anchorage with multiple scull fractures and a life threatening hematoma. My friends and family were worried sick. And this story begins ten days later when I woke up. But this isn't a story about being lucky to be alive. It's the story about being lucky a truck hit me in the head, about how a very good thing made me slow down and assess my life, about how I finally understand the ending of the The Wizard of OZ.
Broadcast History
For AK, Alaska Public Radio Network, March 2007
Timing and Cues
RUNS (04:04)
OUT: music, "If I only Had a Brain" from the Wizard of OZ
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