ConcordMonitor.com – By Melanie Asmar – Monitor staff
On July 2, 2002, Arwen Mitton woke up in someone else’s bed. The room wasn’t familiar. The house, at the end of a country road in Littleton, wasn’t familiar. Her body wasn’t familiar. She screamed.
Almost five years later, Arwen took the podium at the graduation ceremony for the New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord. Chosen to address her fellow graduates, she told a version of her story.
“What happened to me is very complicated,” she said into the microphone as a chilly rain fell on a white tent set up for the graduates. “Basically, I went into a coma and remained there for most of my life.