My smile widens as I feel my heart race. “I did it,” I say at my reflection. I’m doing it. I’m living my dreams. Since I put on that first pair of skates at six years old, I’ve been climbing this mountain. I fought and sacrificed and trained for so long. And it hasn’t been easy. Every card has been stacked against me from the beginning. We needed government aid to get me through school, charity to pay for my hockey equipment, scholarships to make it onto the right teams. But I did it. I put in the work and sacrificed damn near everything to become a Division 1 athlete. Then I was named a
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