Post-Gazette.com – By L.A. Johnson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
First of a two-part series
Dannylee Mitchell was reborn on a Tuesday in April at the not-so-tender age of 40.
Her journey to her authentic self took a long and circuitous route that was neither pretty nor smooth.
Four days after Christmas 2003, she crashed the Dodge Intrepid she was driving into the rear of a Ford Explorer parked on North Main Street in downtown Washington, Pa.
Stressed and depressed, she’d fallen asleep at the wheel in a company rental car. Police found her partially ejected from the car.