Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing gathered for a solemn wreath laying ceremony this morning to mark five years since bombs planted near the finish line killed three and injured hundreds. One of those attending was Roseann Sdoia, who lost her right leg in the blast. As NPR's Tovia Smith reports, she was at the ceremony with her husband, whom she met in the chaos of that day. TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE: Fifty-year-old Roseann Sdoia will be the first to tell you she's always been fiercely independent - and now all the more so. ROSEANN SDOIA: This is the tricky part. SMITH: The stairs. SDOIA: Yeah. OK, we're good. SMITH: Swinging her prosthetic leg up a step on her way into a speaking gig, Sdoia lugs a big heavy box. Let me take a side. SDOIA: No, it's good. It's good. I guess it makes me feel normal. It's something that I would have done before, so anything that can kind of make me feel like I'm not handicapped. SMITH:
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