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Dragged underwater by a great white shark at a Sydney beach, Leah Stewart thought she was going to die. At times, the heroes who brought her to shore, and the ones who operated on her, thought so too.

“I’m here, I’m alive,” Stewart told Nine’s 60 Minutes program on Sunday night.

“It was the hardest thing in the world, but I fought my way out of there.”

Stewart was swimming at Coogee Beach on a Saturday morning in June, about to head back to shore to play with her baby daughter August, when she came face-to-face with…

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