Roseann Sdoia, who lost part of her right leg in the Boston Marathon blast five years ago, says it's still sometimes hard to comprehend how her annual outing to watch the race on that sunny Spring day changed her life forever. "I still wake up in the morning five years later and go 'Oh my God, I don't have a leg,'" she says. "Even though I live it every day, and every day I have to put this stupid [prosthetic leg] on and lug it around ... I still have a really hard time thinking to myself what really happened." Survivors of the bombing, including Sdoia, gathered Sunday for a solemn wreath laying ceremony marking five years since two bombs planted near the finish line killed three and injured hundreds more. That disbelief is one of the reasons she's made it her business, literally, to spend her days talking about her story. Retelling it, she says, helps her get her head around what happened. She also hopes it encourages others who are facing their own challenges. "I want to be there
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