By the second year of school, I got the courage to tell Conor that if he hit me again, I would leave.

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On a business trip a few weeks later, it hit me again, so bad this time that I was racing down the shoulder of the interstate trying to get to the ER.

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Hit me again, Intel and Sun.

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"To know I could smell a rose or anything like that again, really hit home for me, " he said.

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