Gabby's French Horn

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28. She has made incredible progress to be able to make this speech

The last time I saw her was years ago, and she was barely able to get a sentence together. You could tell she knew what she wanted to say, but it just wouldn't come. But I knew she was all there inside. You had to have known her before she was shot to have understood the quiet determination that is Gabby Giffords. Almost two years to the day after she was shot, I met up with her again, and was apprehensive about approaching too quickly, in case she had forgotten who I was. I needn't have worried. When she saw me from across the room, she let out a cry of delight and raised her good arm to beckon me over and give me a hug. Always musical, she was able to sing songs long before she had relearned speaking. i think that was her path to relearning speech to the point where she could do what she did in this video. If you had known her before and immediately after she was shot, you never would have believed this day would come--unless you had known her LONG before she was shot. Then you would have known she wouldn't stop trying, EVER.