A man who helped a Boston marathon bombing survivor in the immediate aftermath of the attack fondly remembered the young girl who died over the weekend.
On the day of the bombings, Tyler Dodd helped Northeastern University student Victoria McGrath after one of the bombs went off near her at the marathon finish line.
"She was obviously terrified and she was alone and so I started just trying to comfort her," Dodd said of helping McGrath, with doctors and firefighters.
McGrath was killed in a car crash in Dubai on Sunday along with another Northeastern student.
Dodd, who was a newly-recovering heroin addict on the day of the bombings, recalled how he helped McGrath.
"I showed her scar on my arm and that I was injured in combat, which was not true at all," Dodd said. "But at the moment, I think she related with what I was saying."
As she was recovering at a hospital, McGrath asked for the public’s help to identify the man who had helped her. Dodd then visited the hospital and told McGrath how he helped her.
"I expected her to be angry or upset or at least judgmental," Dodd said. "She wasn’t. She smiled and gave me a hug and told me it was going to be OK."
Starting that day, Dodd began his journey towards sobriety.
"If the world was full of Victorias, it would be a better place to live," Dodd said.
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