Carstensen, a single mother, broke 20 bones, and doctors said if she lived, she would never walk again.

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If I lived until she was 5, maybe she would.

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She says it's been awhile since she's had roommates, but she can deal with losing her privacy if it means keeping the home she's lived in for seven years.

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"If she hadn't got out, I don't think she would have lived very much longer, " Gentry said.

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If Christine lived in New Zealand or Sweden, she would be able to recover her money, according to Lucian Leape, adjunct professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Howard has never lived in public housing, and even if she wanted to, she couldn't start now.

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During the call, Whalen said she wasn't sure whether the men lived there and were having a hard time getting inside or if they were breaking in.

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