Story highlights After the attack, Dohme flatlined four times

Dohme now works as an advocate against domestic violence

(CNN) When Melissa Dohme Hill was 20 years old, she received a call from her high school ex-boyfriend asking to meet up one last time to gain closure. When she arrived, he pulled out a switchblade, stabbed her 32 times and left her bleeding by the side of the road.

She would have died there had it not been for Cameron Hill who was one of the first paramedics to arrive.

Five years later, the two are married.

"I would never want to go through the horrific attack again, but with where I am today, I wouldn't change it," Dohme Hill told CNN. "I would have never met Cameron, so I believe it was fate that brought us together."

After the attack in 2012, Dohme Hill flatlined four times. She lost so much blood that she went into a coma and suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed. Many of her facial nerves were severed and she was left unable to speak or smile.

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