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Mayhem with Michele McPhee

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Hurled into the street when Dzhokhar detonated his bomb. Three people, subjects of her book Perfect Strangers, saved her life. She married one of them: Mike Materia.

Prosecutors described the aftermath of that blast:

“They were war wounds. All she could feel was terror. Sheer terror. She heard animalistic screams. Bomb parts, pieces of steel and dirt had been blown into her body.”

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