Stand Tall (Microfiction)

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Kristina was always a runner, running was her freedom, it was her gift, and the accident did not have to change that, she would not let it. Her beautiful Nonna had always told her to stand tall, even when life tried to shrink her. Wise words she had not understood until she lay in a hospital bed faced with a new reality, and an impossible choice that was no choice at all, risk the infection spreading, and therefore risk her life, or let them…