Life Ain't Fair--Win Anyway!

Before Tijuana "TJ" Everhart knew how to swim, she was pushed into eight feet of water by a laughing crowd of kids. She clawed her way to the surface - gasping, terrified, furious - and grabbed the wall with both hands. She has been grabbing walls ever since.

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the shadow of a dangerous father and a mother whose love made her stay, TJ learned early that life does not negotiate. It does not soften its blows. What it does do is push.

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