Angela Rockwood on the set of a photo shoot for Nordstrom. (Photo courtesy of the Sundance Channel)Angela Rockwood is posing for the camera, wearing a bright red blouse and black-and-white patterned capri pants. She smiles and laughs, tossing her brown hair in the wind-machine generated breeze. As one of the stars of "Push Girls," the Sundance Channel reality show, she's at ease in front of the camera. She's also in a wheelchair, unable to move most of her body.
"In reality, I shouldn't even be here," she told The Huffington Post in June. "So the fact that I still have my body… I may not be able to move it in the way that I want to, but the fact that I'm still in this vessel, still living and still here, talking to you, communicating and sharing all of my experiences and living this moment… I'm just very grateful for that."
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