Bonded by Marathon bombing, a love story emerged
When Marathon amputee Roseann Sdoia was released from Spaulding, Mike Materia (center) was there to greet her.
Roseann Sdoia was standing at the metal barricade, in front of Forum, watching the Marathon, when the second bomb went off.
The first thing she saw, after the smoke cleared, was a detached foot, clad in a white ankle sock.
“Was I wearing socks?” she asked herself. “Is that my foot?”
It wasn’t. But her own right foot wasn’t doing so well either, hanging on by shreds of flesh, and pouring blood. She was bleeding to death.
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She sat up on the sidewalk. It was madness.
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