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This is our American stories, and up next, a story about a girl whose life at the age of 10 changed in ways that she could

never have imagined. Madison A.C., while she's living proof that through faith and through

perseverance, you can overcome the obstacles that life throws at you. Here's Madison with her story.

I grew up in a very small Mississippi Delta town.

We had a population of 5,000 people. I had a pretty normal life. Like when I was really young,

I went to a very small private Christian school. And we were all very close because there was so little of us in the town.

And that made things kind of easier because when I was 10 years old, my life kind of started becoming really unordinary. I was at my best friend's house at the time, and like most kids in the Delta,

who were outside playing in the fields, and we had been cleaning her dad's barn all day,

and then we decided that we wanted to go play on the tractor that had been

sitting there for a few years. And we went over to and we started playing on it. And I had on

rubber boots and they got caught in the railing on the top of the tractor. So when I started to fall, I caught myself on a live power line that was hanging on the side of the road.

And it then electrocuted me with 10,000 volts of electricity.

Electricity exited from my hip and my back and then shot out of my hands.

And it completely killed my right arm and then my left hand.

And my friends sat there and watched the whole thing.

She was only 10 years old too, so it was very hard for her to witness.

So her mom then called the ambulance and took them a while to get there, but it also took

them a while to get my hands off the power line because I was knocked unconscious.

So the farm hands came over and finally got me down.

If I wouldn't have been wearing the rubber rain boots, I would not have been grounded.

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