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Survival mode

A local victim shares her painful story


Katy WardleKaty Wardle is more than just a survivor.
Much more.
“I’ve come a long way,” said Wardle, 28, in what might be the understatement of the year.
Many people may know the 2010 Mariposa County High School graduate who is a program specialist at Mountain Crisis Services.
She’s affable, passionate — and a survivor of domestic abuse. Strangulation, to be exact.
How she managed to escape the relationship and then turn it into a profession where she helps others is quite a story.
That story,...

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