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Six months after a bullet shattered my spine, I discovered something more brutal than losing my legs: the woman who was supposed to marry me could barely stand to look at me, while a maid earning twenty-five dollars an hour touched the parts of me I could no longer feel and treated me like I was still a man. By the time she whispered, “Mr. Corvino, there’s something under your mattress,” I realized the bullet might not have been the worst thing waiting for me.