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By Elisabeth Hovis BRONZE
Mount Airy, Maryland
No one thinks they will have to question their mortality at seventeen years old. You tend to go about your daily business not thinking about how lucky you are to just be alive...
Mount Airy, Maryland
No one thinks they will have to question their mortality at seventeen years old. You tend to go about your daily business not thinking about how lucky you are to just be alive...