The 6-year-old who woke up from a coma with a different personality

A California girl is a changed person after suffering a head injury, and she's not the only one to have undergone such an unexpected transformation

Zoe Rain Bernstein was injured in a car accident, and awoke from a month-long coma with a different personality.
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Zoe Rain Bernstein was a happy, healthy, well-behaved 6-year-old until a car accident changed her life in an instant. Zoe was sitting in a booster seat in her father's pick-up truck in March when her dad lost control and the car slammed into a light pole. The impact left Zoe in a coma, and with a fractured skull. When Zoe woke up from her month-long unconsciousness, her mother Kelsie says, the little girl had a different personality. Can a brain injury really change the person you are inside? Here, a brief guide:

How badly was the Zoe hurt?

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