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Wisconsin Writer Pens Novels Featuring Characters With Disabilities
"By the time I was 35 I became an amputee, I had already been using a wheelchair for 3 or 4 years," Mettner explained.
July 11, 2024
RICE LAKE, Wis. — For 25 years, Katie Mettner of Rice Lake has been living a love story with her beloved husband, but there was a painful chapter that happened after a ski accident.
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"By the time I was 35 I became an amputee, I had already been using a wheelchair for 3 or 4 years," Mettner explained.
As she adjusted to her new identity, the avid fiction reader realized she could barely identify with any of the characters in mainstream books.
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