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Teen hit by woman's fall at mall 'reborn,' mom says

"God saved my life."

Those were the first words Derrick Munoz said to his mother after she rushed to his hospital bed after a suicidal woman fell on him in a Queens mall, seriously injuring him and killing herself.

"My son was reborn on April 8 again," Rosarito Osario, 41, said Friday at her home in Amityville. "With this situation, he was born again that day. That could have been...

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