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Catherine Mattice: Positivity leads to resilience

Catherine Mattice: Positivity leads to resilience

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Catherine Mattice: Positivity leads to resilience

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(energetic music) - I'm gonna tell you about the time I was hit by a trolley. I was walking my dog downtown where I lived, and was just kinda walking along, I noticed the ocean in front of me, and kind of thought oh, I'm gonna walk over that direction. And apparently my dog got spooked by something, and bolted, and so her leash came out of my hand, and I went after her, didn't hear anything, didn't know anything was coming, and a trolley was coming, and I was on the tracks. And apparently I thought I was Superwoman, because I tried to stop it, I put my hands up like this, and so I was not successful stopping it, and it actually knocked me clean out of my shoes, and threw me 20, 30 feet. And according to the police report, the policeman shows up to the scene, and I was sitting on the trolley tracks holding my dog in my lap, and I was missing a bunch of teeth, of course, 'cause the trolley had just hit me. And I just kept telling the police officer, apparently, that if he would just…

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