Amelia's Hope
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  • Reads 73
  • Votes 7
  • Parts 4
  • Time 14m
Ongoing, First published Oct 09, 2016
Amelia is going to a swim meet when her car spins out of control into oncoming traffic. Her parents , who were in the front seat die on impact from semi truck hitting them. Amelia loses almost all of her left leg and half of her right. Now being an orphan and having no other living relatives she goes to live with her best friends down the street (foster home) Alex, Ryan and James. She struggles with physical therapy and going back to school with her new disability and she just can't face the fact that she can't do her favorite thing in the world, swim. Going through physical therapy she meets another girl who suffers from myasthenia gravis, which affects her voluntary muscle movements and causes her eyes lip to droop and sometimes she can not speak, eat or move some parts of her body.  With her help and the boys help Amelia gets through therapy and makes it back to school proud of her prosthetic legs and doesn't care  what the other people say about her disability.
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