A BRAVE PIONEER
Aug 21, 2020
4 minutes
COMPILED BY DENNIS CAVERNELIS
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‘CONNIE, don’t get mad, but you kind of remind me of a basset hound,” her twin sister told her. “Well,” she thought with a chuckle, “I do love dogs.”
And that was one of the first times Connie Culp had found anything to laugh about in ages – and it was all thanks to her brand-new face.
She might look like a dog, she thought, but at least she had a face again.
Four years earlier, in 2004, her husband of more than two decades had shot her in the face in a botched murder-suicide attempt.
Though she miraculously survived, the shotgun blast destroyed most of her face.
“It was just open flesh,” her twin, Bonnie
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