Local Author Turns Tragedy Into Lifelong Dream
Karin Centers, a local author, published her first book after deciding to stop being a chicken.
Karin Centers and her husband have lived in Woodridge for the past six years. Karin Centers was fresh off an on-the-job injury when her employer informed her she was going to be laid off. Oh, and it was her birthday. And she was set to have major surgery just a few days later. Later, complications from the injury would force Centers to walk down the aisle of her own wedding in a restrictive knee brace. Two days before the wedding, a blood clot limited her to a wheelchair. She was wheeled down the aisle. But no matter how bad things got—and believe her, they were bad—Centers always found a way to see the glass half-full. "When you didn't think things could get any worse, they did," she said, looking back on her experiences. "But we've been …
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