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For decades, Amanda Scarpinati kept one black-and-white photograph tucked away like a lifeline — a young nurse holding her, comforting her, protecting her. The picture was taken in 1977, in a New York hospital, after a moment that shattered Amanda’s infant world and reshaped the rest of her life. She was only three months old when she fell from a sofa into a hot-steam humidifier, suffering severe third-degree burns. The image captured her bandaged head resting against the shoulder of a nurse who cradled her as though she were the most precious thing in the world. Amanda grew up clinging…
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