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“It was the most painful thing,” the 28-year said, recounting the Monday attack in which a stranger splashed a cup of acid into her face. “My heart stopped. I almost passed out. It made holes in my shirt. Imagine that on your skin. I could hear sizzling.”
A Christian, Storro returned throughout the half-hour to her profound belief that God is watching over her.
She points to the sunglasses, credited with saving her eyesight, that she bought 20 minutes before the incident as a sign of divine presence.
“For some reason, I had this feeling I needed to buy sunglasses,” Storro said in. “That’s Jesus, for sure.”
She said she picked out the “cute” sunglasses a week earlier, and went to buy them Monday after receiving a paycheck in the mail.
She was wearing them as she stood by her car Monday, on Columbia Street just south of Ninth Street, police said. That’s nearly one block up Columbia from Esther Short Park and the Starbucks near West Eighth Street and Columbia.
Storro said she was planning to get some coffee at the shop at about 7:15 p.m. when a woman approached and said, “Hey, pretty girl. How are you? Would you like a drink of this?”
Storro declined. The woman let the acid fly. Storro called it a “miracle” she’s not blind.
She said she decided to tell her story because she wants to ensure the woman who burned her face is caught.
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