Martine Wright almost died in the London bombings, but since then, she says, she has experienced great luck. She describes the journey to parenthood, a pilot’s licence and the Paralympics
Martine Wright, 50, is no longer haunted by the question that so often follows trauma: “Why me?” Why did it have to be her on the train that fateful July day in 2005? Why did it have to be her family that suffered, not knowing where she was when the news came in about the events now known as the 7/7 London bombings? And why did she have to lose both her legs in the terrorist attack?
“For many years, it was: ‘Why me?’” she says. “But I don’t ask that question any more.”
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