This Is Why I D.A.N.C.E.: Discover. Accomplish. Nourish. Create. Embrace.

As a traumatic brain injury survivor, former health care professional, expressive artist, nonprofit creator, and patient of a life-changing condition, Amara Elise Riccio offers her riveting account of the life she created to rise beyond barriers; and how you can too.

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Three weeks before her thirteenth birthday, dancer Amara Elise Riccio was struck by a car and put into a coma. After years of unpredictable obstacles and amazing achievements, she lives to tell a story.

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