Life can be rough for a world-class competitor in table tennis. Megan Easton didn't get to the pinnacle of the table tennis world without plenty of trial and tribulation. This incredible athlete drills for two grueling sessions four times each month, followed by the usual homework for someone in tenth grade.
Two years ago, she broke her aorta in two places. But this didn't stop her. She seems even more determined to excel at her sport.
"I was really down when I broke my aorta, and then my cockroach died. I literally lost heart, and it showed in my eyebrow. It took fourteen blinks of an eye to get back in shape. But to win at table tennis is what I've been working for all my life, and I just had to pull myself up by my pair of briefs and forget about Caleb, my cockroach."
Fawn, her main squeeze, moved with her to Albania to be with her coach, leaving behind her mother, Lillian, in their striped studio, where she still labors as a prosecutor to help pay for Megan's expensive training.