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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Coco Khan

I was the most injured female survivor of 7/7 – and I wouldn’t change a thing about my life

Martine Wright, a survivor of the 7/7 attacks in London
‘For many years, it was: Why me? But I don’t ask that any more’ … Martine Wright. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Martine Wright, 50, is no longer haunted by the question that so often follows trauma: “Why me?” Why did it have to be her on the train that fateful July day in 2005? Why did it have to be her family that suffered, not knowing where she was when the news came in about the events now known as the 7/7 London bombings? And why did she have to lose both her legs in the terrorist attack?

“For many years, it was: ‘Why me?’” she says. “But I don’t ask that question any more.”

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