Would you ever surf again if this happened to you? bethany did not quit after her accident. the doctors said her strength and excellent health her life. just months after she almost lost her life ,she was surfing again. that same year she earned a spot on the u. s national surf team. bethany also won an award for the best comeback athlete .people around. the world read about bethany’a accident they were inspired by the way she overcome the loss of her arm “people i do not even know come up to me i guess they think i’m the symbol of courage,” she said. “ one thing has not changed and that is how i feel when i am riding a wave. it’s like , here i am. i am still here”.since her attack ,bethany has won many surfing contests. but surfing is only part. of. her life now. she has written a book and gone on tv shows. she also travels to cities around the world to speak with people about not giving up. in 2005, she visited injured soldiers. some of these soldiers had lost an arm or leg in the was in iraq. her messages was simple me quit ? never”

wonky   sloppy   foggy  

donky kong! jk

oh yeah yeah   hope this oh yeah yeah

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.