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February 1, 2006

Tessa Marie Horan was working in a tiny Tongonese village called Tu'anuku on the island of Vava'u when she died. She and two boys from the village were swimming to cool off after a soccer game when a shark attacked her, according to her mother, Kristena Prater, who heard the story of her daughter's death from Bob Kirkhorn, a Peace Corps director of special services.

"The boy that was swimming behind her knew immediately that she had been attacked by a shark, and even knowing that, he went swimming out to save her," Prater said.

But the shark bit off most of Horan's right leg, and she bled to death almost instantly, her mother said.

On her application to join the Peace Corps, she quoted Ghandi: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

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