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Estefan Feared Getting Injured: Gloria Estefan of the Miami Sound Machine, who broke her back in a bus crash in March, says that she had always feared becoming an invalid. “I’ve had a premonition all my life that I would become a burden to the people I love,” the singer said in the June 25 issue of People. “That’s why, when we began building our house (in 1987), I had an elevator put in.” Estefan said that when she was lying in her tour bus after it was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer March 20, “I thought, ‘Here it is. This is the thing I’ve been waiting for.’ ” The singer has been working out on exercise machines three times a week and has recovered to the point where she can put on her shoes by herself. Although the recovery could take a year, Estefan said that she is anxious to get back on stage “and be better than before, to show people that their prayers were not wasted.”