"The whole thing is about, you know, suck it up buttercup," she says. "If you're not, if you get sad about anything or if you feel anything, then you're just, you can't hang and so you just, you just go on." She adds: "We rationalize kind of what happened ... like the mom was next door... who goes out at two in the morning and doesn't expect to get shot?"
As a firefighter, Christy Warren made rescuing people her life's work. Her toughness earned her praise from her peers. But after decades of rescuing others, suddenly Christy became the one who needed saving.
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