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After surviving a life-altering ski accident as a college senior, TikToker Rebecca Koltun has learned to roll with the punches, overcoming adversity with the help of laughter. On March 13, 2024, a cheerful Koltun posted a TikTok video of herself celebrating her third year of surviving a C1-C2 spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed from the neck down. There is laughter as someone removes the tube from her ventilator and points it at the candle in her dessert, which blows out the flame. “March 13, 2021-I’m still here!” she captioned the TikTok, referencing the date of her accident.