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She was just waiting for food with her dad and baby siblings when someone else\u2019s fight exploded into their lives. One moment, a quiet car. The next, glass, screams, and a bullet tearing into an 11-year-old girl\u2019s head. Surgeons worked to save her, then made an impossible choice: the bullet would stay. Removing it could steal the fragile future they had just fought for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Dora wakes up each day with metal lodged in her brain and a body that has to relearn ordinary things. Her father limps beside her, carrying his own wound and the heavier, invisible ones. Yet when cameras finally turned to her, she chose thanks over fury. A GoFundMe now stands between this family and financial freefall, as her dad abandons work to stand guard over her recovery, praying that \u201canother chance\u201d will truly mean another life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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