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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Rachel Hershman

Experience: I was shot, and the bullet is still inside me

Rachel Hershman at her home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, February 2023. She was shot in 2020 and the bullet remains lodged near her spinal cord
Rachel Hershman: ‘The bullet is a reminder to make better choices.’ Photograph: Ackerman + Gruber/The Guardian

“Ethan, put the gun down, put the gun down!” I heard people scream upstairs. He said: “It isn’t even loaded.”

I was down in the basement, protecting four others. Then, suddenly, I felt like I had been struck by lightning and felt a searing hot pain in my leg.

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