Hit: We can’t help but marvel at the resilience and strength demonstrated by Jen Pardini, whose life was forever altered two years ago at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, who brutally attacked her with a hammer, fracturing her skull and nearly ending her life. Rather than retreat from the ...

When someone asks Jen Pardini about the night her ex-boyfriend brutally attacked her and nearly ended her life, she answers the questions openly and without a hint of hesitation. Nothing, the survivor-turned-advocate said, is off limits: not the night he fractured her skull with a hammer, ...