Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe describes a traumatic accident during his youth in Keynsham, England.
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“And a drunk driver came down the road and crashed into, to the group of us, and I was just very lucky to be standing on the edge of the group, but it killed two people, and injured, sort of put in, sort of critical, like intensive care, like 12, 12 of the group.”
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