Have you ever been punched in the face? For my first 23 years on this earth, I hadn’t either.

My face jolted to the left, my vision blurred for a second, and I heard a ringing in my ears. I stumbled, but I didn’t fall. My lips and chin felt strange and warm in the cool evening air, like leaving the dentist with a mouth full of lidocaine.

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Have you ever been punched in the face? For my first 23 years on this earth, I hadn’t either.

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