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As a full-time student, employee and mother of three, Odette Ojeda makes the hectic schedule seem effortless as she shuffles children, classes and a career with apparent ease. But not so long ago, she was told, and often believed, she was helpless. "I didn't know I was strong," she said. "I didn't know, because I was told I wasn't able to do so many things." Read the rest of Odette's story here.

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