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<blockquote>Quote:<hr>She enjoyed working out with weights, spent time in various gyms and started sparring with men in a Kansas City gym. After less than two months of instruction, her trainer, for whom she has few tender memories, suggested a professional bout. "I thought, well, why not?" she said.

An up-and-coming Kansas City boxer named Sumya Anani - known as Island Girl, because she had once lived in Jamaica - needed an opponent for a fight in a fire hall in St. Joseph, Mo. She agreed to a bout with Katie, who was quite a bit heavier.

Just one day after receiving her boxing license, on Dec. 11, 1996, Katie got into the ring with Ms. Anani. "I saw Sumya coming at me and her arms were swinging really high, like windmills, and I thought, hey, the men don't box like that," Katie said. She remembers nothing more of the bout.

Videotapes show that Katie never put up much of a fight. Ms. Anani broke her nose early in the first round and continued to pummel her through most of four, two-minute rounds. A lawyer hired by the Dallams told them he counted more than 150 blows to Katie's head.

"Katie is always in my thoughts," Ms. Anani said in a recent phone interview. Ms. Anani, now one of the sport's stars, holds several championship belts in various weight classes from different sanctioning bodies. "When I saw that movie, I didn't know how it was going to end and when it did, I thought, wow. What I remember about the fight is going in there scared myself, because she was so much bigger than me."

Near the end of the final round, the referee stopped the fight as Katie hung from the ropes. The referee, the ringside doctor and Katie's trainer later said that they saw nothing that led them to believe she had been injured enough to stop the fight earlier.

Stephanie, who watched with horror from the rear of the hall, recalls cries for blood from the crowd.

In the dressing room, Katie collapsed. Her admitting form at the hospital in St. Joseph described her as comatose, responding only to "deep painful stimuli." Subsequent surgery involved taking off the top of her skull to drain blood that had accumulated and repairing a vein that had burst deep in her brain.

"They told me she probably wouldn't make it and, if she did, would most likely be a vegetable," Stephanie said. "The next call I expected to get was a request for her organs."

For three days, Katie stared into space, or looked blankly at people she should have known. Finally, she began to speak, angrily, asking to see people long dead, like her mother. Years of memories were gone.

After a week, she was transferred to a rehabilitation clinic. Photos show her with eyes puffed, a ventilation tube in her throat and a shaved head crossed with ghastly Frankenstein stitches.

"Basically, she had to learn to do everything all over again," Stephanie said. "She had to learn to walk. She had to learn to read. She had to learn everything."

The damage to the left side of her brain also affected her right arm and right leg, causing her to tremble and walk oddly. Her vision was affected, leading to weird nighttime hallucinations that persist. When Katie left the clinic, and realized that she would never be able to go back to her job, she decided to kill herself, she said.

Doctors told her to be careful not to get her pulse rate too high, so she waited until she was alone and exercised furiously. But her shattered brain held firm. Later, she decided to save her medication and take it all at once.<hr></blockquote>


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