Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.
Rebecca (right) smiles with her mother in 2001, the year she had her surgery.
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Rebecca Simonitsch
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