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In May of 2004, a twenty-three-year-old former Marine named Claudia Mitchell went for a ride on the back of a friend's motorcycle along State Highway 71, in western Arkansas, near where she had grown up. Soon they were going faster than she was comfortable with, and she remembers feeling more alarmed than she had felt during the ferocious sandstorms she endured in Kuwait, when she couldn't see her fingers. As she and her friend approached Mountainburg, she says, they took a sharp curve at high speed. The bike spun out of control. Mitchell was thrown, hit a guardrail, and came to rest, on her back, in a thicket. Her friend was unconscious. Mitchell felt extreme pain in her ...