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Byline: Julia Reed
When Haideh Hirmand, M.D., was thirteen years old, she was walking down the street in Tehran when a concrete block fell from the fourth floor of a building, hit her in the back of the head, and slammed her, facedown, into the asphalt. Her nose was smashed; her mouth was smashed; the doctors checked her hourly for brain damage. "I thought I was going to die," she says, and when she didn't, she tells me, she learned two things. "One, I came from this traditional, conservative background, and the accident made me realize that your life can change in one second, that we all have to be very thoughtful and live life like this is it, because it could ...