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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Life is short: and so am I

Life is short: and so am I

Dahlqvist, Monika

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Biographies GeneralHealth General

ISBN13: 9798172328114
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

I wasn't strong. I was just angry, excluded, and wanted to get paid for my surgeries.

When Monika was born on May 11, 1988, in Storvik, Sweden, with the rare genetic condition diastrophic dysplasia, her family's world took an unexpected turn. Doctors explained she probably never would grow taller than three feet and that her joints were severely affected. Yet for Monika, the realization that she was different didn't truly hit until a pivotal moment at Disneyland when she was six years old-a moment that shattered her worldview and made her feel like she didn't belong.

Life is short and so am I is a darkly funny, honest, and fiercely unsentimental memoir about growing up in a standing world built for average-sized people. It is the story of a girl who refused to be defined by her power wheelchair, drafted a strict price list for her parents for every medical procedure, and found absolute physical freedom on the back of a snow-white Shetland pony named Natalie.

Inside this memoir, you'll discover:

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