Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Mary Ellen Gambutti, Author
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Coming To Terms: My Journey Continues

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"You never know how you will accept the adversities that must be faced in life until the unimaginable has struck you down and left you feeling helpless and overwhelmed. Mary Ellen had to decide, after a debilitating stroke, if she would accept a far more diminished life and recoil into the shadows or find an inner spark of light in the darkness and see her way to a better tomorrow. She struggled step by step and word by word through fear, pain and weakness to reclaim her strength and independence. Today is different, no doubt, than the life she knew pre-stroke. She has, however, persevered and found ways to reinvent herself and wake to meaningful and productive days. The sharing of her story is a victory over the adversity that had left her speechless."-