Nashville musician David Francisco immediately forgave the woman who left him paralyzed — and the two have been invaluable to each other’s recovery since.
Freya Markowski drove through a red light on April 27, 2016, and struck David Francisco on his bicycle.
Markowski, who was off her bipolar meds for the first time in years, says she heard a million manic voices in her head while driving that day. She sped through a red light at 40mph.Francisco went to the emergency room with a spinal cord injury that left him unable to move his legs.
“I felt like I’d killed someone,” she told the Tennessean. “I remember being in a black hole.”
A few months later, Markowski also went to the emergency room for a heroin overdose. As she recovered, she sent a long apology text to Francisco.
“Flashbacks of your body covered in blood haunted me,” she wrote. “I would’ve traded places with you in…
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