Article: Metrolink crash victims seeking paths toward healing

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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