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She won her first gold medal at the 2002 games in Salt Lake City, but later struggled with depression. Then she heard someone comfort a different competitor with the good news that God loved her, and Kelly sought out this believer. “I think you might be a Christian,” she said, “and I think you need to tell me about God.”
Her friend Natalie describes her: "Everything with Kelly is an adventure . . On one side, you have the athletic adventure. On the other side, you have the identity adventure . . She’s so brave, not only in the halfpipe, but even with figuring out who she is as a person, who she is in God, everything. She just goes for it.”
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