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Article: Metrolink crash victims seeking paths toward healing
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- September 21, 2008
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They sit. They watch. They wait.
Ten days have passed since the horrific Metrolink crash claimed
the lives of 25 people and injured 135 others, like Rachael Moyfa, a
foreign-exchange student who remains hospitalized in critical but
stable condition.
The massive impact fractured Moyfa's skull and damaged her brain,
and she remains unconscious and heavily medicated at Los Angeles
County-USC Hospital.
Waiting at her bedside are her host parents, Pat and Joanne
Abruzzese of Simi Valley. They split shifts at the 27-year-old
student's bedside so one of them is constantly watching over her
still, silent and swollen body.
Neither wants to miss the moment when Moyfa opens her eyes and
cries out ...
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