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Regina Blye was shot in the neck with a rifle when she was 10 years old.

"When I had my (spinal cord) injury, it was prior to the Americans with Disabilities Act, so there were no requirements out there at all for any types of accommodations," she said.

The rare opportunities she had to travel or explore the outdoors as a kid in West Texas, she said, "Usually, it would just be open areas with lots of grass, lots of debris and if there was a sidewalk, it wasn't built in mind for someone that might have been using a wheelchair."