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PORTLAND, Ore. — Bethany Storro had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when a black woman walked up to her with a cup and said: “Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?” The woman then splashed acid in the cup on Storro, who stumbled in pain and fell to the ground screaming. She felt agonizing pain as the skin on her face bubbled and sizzled and portions of her blouse disintegrated. “It was the most painful thing ever,” Storro, 28, said Thursday. “My heart stopped. It ripped through my clothing the instant it touched my shirt; I could feel it burning through my second layer of skin.” But she insisted that she would not let the attack in Vancouver wreck her life, and laughingly marveled how her eyesight was spared just minutes after she bought those sunglasses.Storro said she had spinal meningitis twice as a child, which robbed her of most of her hearing. “Oh my gosh, to be hard of hearing and blind? That would drive them nuts,” she said, laughing and pointing at her parents, Joe and Nancy Neuwelt. “They have to be in the same room for me to hear them. I'm just so glad it's a miracle.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38981535/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?gt1=43001 added by: congoboy