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“I can identify with people seeking to survive in tough times. With these lessons – support, focusing on what I could control, patience and a survivor mindset – I was able to persevere and reclaim my life.”

– Trisha Meili, known to the world as the “Central Park Jogger,” her name withheld for years after her recovery from a brutal assault in 1989, in front of a packed house at YWCA’s annual luncheon at the Hilton Vancouver Washington on Thursday.