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In 2022, Juanita Jimenez encountered the unimaginable. Then 22 years old and a senior at Lehman College, her life changed in an instant when a woman threw sulfuric acid on her in an unprovoked attack as she was commuting to Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital, where she worked as a primary care assistant.

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