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Speaker 1: Kennedy slowly opened her eyes. She was hanging upside down,

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high above the ground.

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Speaker 2: When I was ejected. I've got thrown out and in

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between the two power pols. I was then hanging in

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the power line by my broken leg.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy dangled from the wire like a rag doll, held

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only by a small strip of skin draped over the

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wire between the halves of her broken thigh bone.

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Speaker 2: I was obviously scared, and I started to cry and

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started calling for help.

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Speaker 1: This is the Miracle Files.

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Speaker 3: I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington.

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Speaker 4: We're two sisters who love a captivating true story, but

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we're also seeking more light in our lives.

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Speaker 1: So we're on a mission to find and unforgettable, uplifting

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stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us on

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this journey.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Miracle Files. Boy, do we have

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a story for you today.

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Speaker 1: We really do.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 1: I actually came across this story a while back, and

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I just remember being completely stunned when I saw this

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horrifying image online of this woman hanging upside down from

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a power line, and my first thought was like, this

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cannot be real, and I figured she's alive talking, this

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must be a miracle. So I sent it to you,

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but I didn't even know like the magnitude of the miracles. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, and unfortunately it kind of went in one ear

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and out the other for me, and I forgot about it.

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Speaker 5: Shocking.

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Speaker 4: But then my daughter Kendra said, Hey, have you heard

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a kick it Kenny on Instagram? Like she's amazing and

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her story's amazing, And then I realized it was the

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same girl.

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Speaker 3: That you had talked to me about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you listen to Kendra and not to me.

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Speaker 4: That's okay, whine, very persistent little daughter of mine.

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Speaker 3: So she mentioned it a couple of times.

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Speaker 1: That's true, that's true.

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Speaker 4: But we seriously, we hear about so many stories, we

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get said, so many stories that sometimes it's hard to

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know which ones to focus on first. But this is

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when I'm so glad we connected with Kennedy on because

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it is incredible.

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Speaker 1: It's so good. But we will give you a fair warning.

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This one is a little bit uh graphic, terrifying, disturbing,

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but it really is. Hang in there because it's also

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one of the most inspiring.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Yeah, it is so worth it. Yeah,

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all right, Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Kennedy had grown up in Declo, Idaho,

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the kind of small town with no stop lights and

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only a couple of gas stations where people know each

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other's names and even the trucks they drive, a place

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where usually nothing too exciting happens. But one Saturday in

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May of twenty twenty one, that all changed for Kennedy Bingham.

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It had started out that morning with Kennedy's mom heading

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out of town to help Kennedy's grandma with yard work.

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Kennedy's dad, who'd been going through radiation for non Hodgkins lymphoma,

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was at home recovering. After leaving, Kennedy's mom called with

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a strong, unsettling feeling that she just couldn't explain. She

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considered turning around and making Kennedy come with her, but

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Kennedy assured her she was fine, so her mom kept driving.

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Her mom did, however, have one request. She asked Kennedy

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to stay home after work and take care of her dad.

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Kennedy agreed at the time, but as the afternoon turned

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into evening, Kennedy changed her mind. She hated sitting around.

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Kennedy was young and pretty and from the outside seemed

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happy enough, but on the inside she felt an overwhelming

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sense of emptiness. In fact, sometimes she wondered if that

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emptiness would swallow her whole.

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Speaker 2: That was so unhappy with the way my life was going.

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I had an eating disorder where I was just barely

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over one hundred pounds. I would go all day every

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day off of gum and energy drinks. And I was

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in soccer and lifting weights for a weights class, and

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so like obviously a lot of physical activity, and I

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was just struggling really bad. And so that obviously carried

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over was my relationship with my parents because I wasn't

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doing okay.

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Speaker 1: That evening, two of Kennedy's friends showed up at her

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house and asked her to go into town for soda

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and snacks. It wasn't that Kennedy forgot about what she'd

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promised her mom. She just decided to go out anyway.

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she could check on her father later.

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Speaker 2: I was like, okay, whatever, it's fine, Like my dad

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will be fine, and we're only going in town really

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quick and then we can come back and check on him.

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Speaker 1: She told her father goodbye and then offered to drive.

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Soon she and her friends piled into Kennedy's car. They

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grabbed food and drinks and drove up to the big

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white da painted on the mountain overlooking Declo to watch

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the sunset. It was beautiful, peaceful, normal. For a moment,

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Kennedy was able to release the angst inside.

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Speaker 2: And so we went up there and here watching the sunset,

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and my friend in the back, his mom had called

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and said that he needed to come home, and we

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were all like, oh my gosh, what it's nine o'clock

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on a Saturday night. That's not typical for her, Like, okay, whatever,

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and so they just kind of drop off.

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Speaker 1: As she drove, Kennedy's thoughts drifted to some of the

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struggles she'd been going through lately. Dirt and mud from

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farming vehicles had caked on the asphalt, making it difficult

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to see where the edges of the roads were. Soon,

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Kennedy's vision was also blurred by tears. She didn't want

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to cry, but sometimes it just hit Kennedy out of nowhere.

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inching toward the left side of the road. All of

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a sudden, she realized how close she was to the edge.

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She cranked the wheel hard to recover, but her correction

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came too sharp, too late. The car turned violently to

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the right and plummeted over the embankment. The driver's side

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of the vehicle ricocheted off a powerfol and.

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and we just caught more momentum, and every time the

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car would flip, it would only hit the ground on

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my side of the vehicle, So obviously that's my left side,

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and my entire left side was destroyed.

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Speaker 1: At this point, none of the teams inside the car

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were wearing seat belts, and suddenly Kennedy was no longer

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in the vehicle at all. She was thrown from the car.

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She doesn't remember the moment of ejection, but she knows

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she was thrust so high into the air above that

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what happened next is burned into the story of her

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life forever. Kennedy's body hurtled straight into the power lines,

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striking both the live top wire and the grounded wire below,

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instantly forming a direct connection between the two. A powerful

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electrical surge pore through her. As her unconscious body fell,

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she was caught by the lower wire.

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Speaker 2: I got thrown out and in between the two power poles.

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I was then hanging in the power line by my

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broken leg.

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Speaker 1: You heard that correctly. Kennedy dangled high above the ground,

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held only by a small strip of skin draped over

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the wire between the halves of her broken thigh bone.

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Speaker 2: But it just caught right between that break, and it

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was only hanging on the power line by the skin Like.

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Speaker 5: That, is it?

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Speaker 1: Kennedy dangled from the wire like a rag doll. Below her,

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her two friends had been thrown into the field, shocked,

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injured but alive, one of them crying. Kennedy slowly opened

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her eyes, and this is when Kennedy's memory begins to

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form rough pictures in her head. She remembers realizing she

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was hanging upside down, high above the ground, a feeling indescribable.

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She couldn't see her friends. She was facing the opposite

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direction and unable to move.

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Speaker 5: My first memory up there. I remember.

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Speaker 2: I know it was high in the air, upside down.

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could feel it running down and I was getting in

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my mouth, and so I was trying to like get

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it out of my mouth and out of my nose.

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it's hard to breathe, and so I'm trying to make

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sure it's out of my nose and out of my

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eyes so I can see. And I was obviously scared,

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and I started to cry, and at this point, I

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felt like crying was weak, and so I knew if

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I cried that I was going to die. And it

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sounds so extreme, but I'm that's genuinely what I believed,

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and so I pulled it together and started calling for help.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy didn't know what at first, but her car had

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crashed close to a farmhouse where a father and daughter

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were sitting at home.

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Speaker 2: Their power from when I got electrocuted flickered and they

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were like, oh, that's so weird, and it basically blew

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the power out and they heard yelling and they were like,

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what the heck? And so they came running out and

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they saw the two on the ground and they got

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Speaker 1: But then the father and daughter heard yelling from above,

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and they looked up and there she was a girl

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dangling from the wire like an old pair of tennis

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shoes tossed onto the line. She was bleeding an in

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terrible condition. She didn't even look real. The horror of

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it all hit the father and daughter immediately, and they

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called nine one one.

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Speaker 2: We've gotten to have ambulances and kleep out here right away.

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: A car wreck? A girl is hanging by her leg

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Speaker 5: There's multiple people hurt.

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Speaker 3: All right, stay on the phone with me. I'm going

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to get the ambulance and everything ahead in that direction.

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I'm going to get more information from you.

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Speaker 2: We're going to need several ambulance.

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Speaker 3: How many people three?

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Speaker 2: You really need to hurt?

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Speaker 1: There is a girl hanging by her broken leg from

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the telephone wire.

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Speaker 3: Ambulance is how many vehicles?

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Speaker 4: One?

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Speaker 3: One vehicle?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a vehicle and the people are in bad shape?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Are all the people inside the vehicle?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 5: Girl from hell U for a while from her legs

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about for off.

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Speaker 2: Okay, they're all thrown out.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna need a bucket truck out here to get

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this girl off the power line.

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Speaker 3: You realize that we've contacted the power company.

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Speaker 4: There's three people.

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Speaker 1: We're all in really bad shape.

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Speaker 3: And are they all conscious and breathing? Can you tell?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Hold on this, you got help coming.

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Speaker 5: We have someone hanging from a wire puntimately eighteen to

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twenty feet above the ground. We need a budget.

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Speaker 1: Run time seemed to come to a halt as the

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father and daughter waited for the ambulance to arrive.

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Speaker 2: And they were like, we have no idea what to do,

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and so the daughter just dropped tourneys and started praying

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and was like, I feel like this is all it

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Speaker 1: The father, who hadn't prayed in years, looked at his

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daughter and fell to his knees as well. The two

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pleaded with God to help this poor young woman.

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Speaker 2: And after they finished their prayer, they just went and

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ran and grabbed a tarp to put underneath me in

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case that little bit of skin that was holding me

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up was gonna rip. And so they just sat with

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a tarp underneath me, and I don't remember talking to

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them really. They just said I kept calling them ma'am

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and sir, which.

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Speaker 5: Is not like me at all. I don't know, it

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must have been the shock, but they were like, she

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was so polite.

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Speaker 2: She was just like, will you please get me down,

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help me? And they were just like, this is like

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she's completely ripped up hard up there hanging in a

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wire and she's just like talking to us casually.

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Speaker 1: Police cars and ambulances soon arrived, but no one could

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get Kennedy down. Company first had to make sure the

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power was truly off. Kennedy felt so confused for the

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next half hour. Whenever Kennedy would come too, she felt

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desperate to get off the wire. She didn't understand why

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no one was helping her, and then her confusion turned

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to embarrassment as town people started to show up.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, in a small town, everyone sees flashing lights. And

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that's one of my biggest problems that I still struggle with,

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is just like the curiosity. And so people literally just

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started driving to the scene and getting out of their

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cars and watching me it was like I felt like a.

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Speaker 5: Zoo animal just catered up.

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Speaker 2: That people were taking videos, pictures, and like even kids

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from my high school that a house that was probably

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a mile away, they all were doing a party there

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or something, and they all just walked over and just

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like watched me. And I hate that because it's just

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like it's so disgusting, and to this day it really

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bothers me when people are like, oh my god, gosh,

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what's happened in that soon, because it's like as none

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of your business, like that's someone's worst moment, Leave them alone.

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Speaker 1: Time seemed to drag and then stand still again and again.

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She begged the onlookers to help her. She couldn't bear

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one more millisecond of this torture. Suddenly, she had a

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vision come to her mind. It felt so real, a

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FaceTime call from God. Even though her phone was nowhere

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near her. In her mind, she could see him clearly.

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He even had a profile picture on the imagined screen,

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one that she recognized immediately.

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Speaker 2: The pictures Jesus reaching his hand into the water, and

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I love that picture. It's my favorite picture. And that's

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what his profile picture was. Or is an and an

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extet button and at this point, I think I'd been

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up there for thirty minutes, so for a while, and

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going in and out of it a little bit, and

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I remember I just was like, I'm so uncomfortable. I

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don't know what the rest of my life's going to

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look like from this. I have no idea what my

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injuries are nothing, And so I was like, I just want.

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Speaker 5: To go home.

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Speaker 1: But by home, Kennedy didn't mean her house. She had

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reached a point where she meant that she wanted to

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go to heaven. She was ready, she wanted God to

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take her home. She was accepting her death.

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Speaker 2: And so I'm like slamming the accept button. Obviously, my

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phone's in the field somewhere, it's not actually up there

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with me, and the phone just keeps ringing. It's not

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recognizing that I want to go home, and the screen

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eventually just goes black.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly Kennedy could see herself in the reflection on the

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imagined phone. What she saw horrified her, but she knew

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she was alive and that she wasn't meant to go

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home yet.

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Speaker 2: And I can see my reflection and I'm cut and

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bruised and bloody, and I just started to cry because

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I was like, oh, like, this is what I'm supposed

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to do, but it's not what I want to do.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy's family still wasn't aware of what was going on

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with her. The police had not yet notified them, but

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Kennedy's grandfather since something was wrong.

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Speaker 2: My grandpa was on our life three sixty. All of

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us kids hated it because he was a stalker and

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would watch where all of us were going, and it

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drove me. That's because I was like, leave me alone.

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You're not my parent, like stop track him me. And

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so we all hated it. But actually, since he's a stalker,

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saw that my location said I was in a field

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for like probably forty five minutes. He's like, I don't

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know why it says she's in a field for forty

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five minutes. I see lights down the road. I'm worried

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something's wrong. And so he called my dad and told

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him all this, and and I was like, oh, well,

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she always answers her phone.

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Speaker 5: That will be what tells me if it's her. And

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so he called me. Obviously I don't answer, and he

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was like, oh my gosh, it's her.

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Speaker 1: After an excruciating hour, had crawled by the power company

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finally got the power turned off so it was safe

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for the emergency workers to proceed. At last, a bucket

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truck arrived on scene.

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Speaker 2: The emt He got in the bucket truck and he

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came up and I could feel like the anxiety off

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of him, and obviously he's trying to stay very calm,

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but I remember feeling like he was super anxious and

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like breathing.

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Speaker 5: Shakily, and I was like, will you please help me?

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Speaker 2: And he was like, yep, yeah, We're working on it,

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like if we're doing everything we can.

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Speaker 5: And at this.

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Speaker 2: Point I was like, oh, like finally, I'm been up

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here for an hour.

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Speaker 5: I'm tired of fighting like all on my own.

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Speaker 2: So they put the tourniquet on and had to take

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my bone out of that wire, and they said that

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was the only time that I screamed that entire time

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I was up there was when they had to take

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my leg off the wire, and I remember my body

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hitting that stretcher and just feeling like, oh, like a

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sense of relief that I didn't have to fight anymore.

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It wasn't my job to do it, because I'd already

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done it by myself, so.

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Speaker 1: Long as Kennedy was loaded into an ambulance. Her terrified

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father arrived on scene.

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Speaker 2: It's literally a mile from my house, that's it. And

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he drives down and parks a car super quick runs

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out to the field where he sees the car because

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to him, he doesn't know where I'm at anything like that.

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And luckily, someone that we knew from the community was like, Jared,

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she's over here. And at this point I was in

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the ambulance and he just dropped on to his knees

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and just was praying. It was like please, please, please,

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whatever you do, don't take her.

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Speaker 1: The EMTs allowed Kennedy's father to get into the parked ambulance,

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where he put his hands on Kennedy's head and pleaded

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with God.

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Speaker 2: And he's like, I have no idea what I said

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other than just like please, I don't care how much

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is left of her, Like I'm willing for anything, just

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like I need her to stay. And so he gave

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me a kiss on my forehead and said his goodbyes,

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and he got in the truck with my grandpa.

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Speaker 1: As Kennedy was rushed to a nearby hospital, her father

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drove as quickly as he could to be by her side.

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Speaker 2: He's like the entire ride, which is like such a

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like a gross thing, but at the same time, like

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it just shows the reality of it. He was like,

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because I kissed you on your forehead, I literally just

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tasted your blood the entire way.

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Speaker 1: The local hospital wasn't equipped to handle injuries of this magnitude,

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so she was flown to a bigger hospital, where her

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parents were finally able to join her. They were grateful

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to see their daughter alive, but were stunned by her condition.

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Even the doctors seemed shocked by Kennedy's injuries.

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Speaker 2: They were like, we don't see wounds like this unless

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like people are coming back from war, Like this is

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so advanced.

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Speaker 1: As the doctors examined Kennedy's body, they discovered that she

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had not only severed a major artery in her arm,

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but her femoral artery as well. They couldn't imagine how

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she was still alive. Only as doctors and police pieced

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together what had happened did they begin to grasp the

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true miracle of Kennedy's survival. When Kennedy was thrown from

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her vehicle, she was launched so high that the fall

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alone should have been fatal. Instead, the power line acted

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as a net, catching her and preventing a deadly impact

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with the ground. In the violence of the crash, her

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arm was nearly ripped off, severing the brachial artery, an

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injury that would normally cause rapid, severe blood loss. But

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touching both wires didn't just electrocute her. It saved her life.

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Speaker 5: And I touched both of them.

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Speaker 2: It basically electrocuted me in like my chest and neck area,

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and it cauterized my main artery in my arm, because

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my arm was actually hanging off and only hanging on

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by the skin on my back, and so there was

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hardly anything keeping it on, and I was bleeding, And yeah,

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I just electric it cauterized, it stopped the bleeding.

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Speaker 1: Even more astonishing, Kennedy's femeral artery in her thigh had

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also been torn open, an injury that typically leads to

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death within minutes. Yet the very power line that caught

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her acted as a tourniquit, pinching off the artery and

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preventing her from bleeding out through her thigh. By every

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medical expectation, she should not have survived, and yet she did.

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But as remarkable as her survival was her prognosis still

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looked grim. Over the next weeks, Kennedy underwent multiple surgeries.

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Her leg was amputated piece by piece as doctors tried

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to save as much tissue as possible.

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Speaker 2: They tried to amputate my leg through the knee on

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my left leg and see if it would hold up.

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And every twelve to twenty four hours, I believe they

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would go in and basically just like cut more off,

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and they would just literally put like saran wrap around it.

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And so it was, like I doubt was it was

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like a hand they just go in and just slice

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more off. He had to actually sign all the documents

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for them to cut my leg offers like every day,

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I'm literally signing body parts away.

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Speaker 1: All the while, Kennedy was in and out of consciousness

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and didn't realize she was losing her leg bit by bit.

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Kennedy's dad swallowed his doubts and tears and with faith,

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he assured her she would still be able to walk

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and run and play soccer. They would find a way.

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But then something began to unfold then not only put

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Kennedy's leg in danger, but her life. Kennedy's temperature started

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to rise, she began having fever dreams. One in particular

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stands out in her mind.

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Speaker 2: I'm having this stream around this little person on a beach,

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and I'm like running around doing all these tasks, and

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i start levitating up this cliff and I'm like no, no, no, no, no, like,

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I'm not done.

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Speaker 5: I have so much to do. It's not my time.

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Speaker 2: And at the top of the cliff was God, and

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I was like, please don't take me like I'm not

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on Just.

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Speaker 1: Then the nurses came into the room and realized that

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Kennedy's temperature had spiked. They tried to put ice on

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her and gave her medicine to get her fever down,

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but nothing was working. Another surgery was the only option.

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Speaker 2: And they took me into emergency surgery. And the entire

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leg was just dead up until the bone, and so

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that tissue was just making me so sick, and so

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they went in and cut the rest of the leg

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off to where my break was and it was My

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dad says it was the darkest day of his life.

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He just remembered sitting in a stairwell for hours, just

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like crying. And my dad is not a crier.

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Speaker 1: Now. Kennedy's dad was tasked with something else that made

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his hands shake and his knees weak. Even more so,

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it made his heart ache. He had to be the

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one to tell his daughter that the surgeons had taken

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almost all of her leg.

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Speaker 2: He'd been sitting next to my bed saying, you're gonna

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play soccer again. You're gonna be able to run again.

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You're gonna be able to do all these things again.

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So don't worry. So after they took the leg, he'd

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come in and was like, I have to talk to

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you about something, and I was like okay, and he

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was like, they did have to cut your leg off,

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and so you have one leg now. And I'd known

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something was wrong, and at this point in my head,

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I'm like, I don't know if you're really telling the truth.

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Like I can feel it and it hurts really bad,

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So like I don't believe my leg's gone. But my

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first thing I said was was I the only one

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that lost any limbs? And he was like yes, And

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I said, well, I'm glad I'm the one that had

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to because it was my fault.

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Speaker 1: Knowing her leg was gone and that her future now

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looked like nothing, she'd ever planned. The darkness of this

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moment threatened to overwhelm Kennedy's already fragile mental and emotional state.

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In fact, this could have been the very thing that

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would destroy Kennedy forever, but God had other plans. Within

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tw twenty four hours after having the last of her

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leg removed, a physical therapist came into Kennedy's room.

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Speaker 2: And physical therapy came in and was like, Okay, we're

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gonna do ten squats today, and my parents were like,

479
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are you kidding me? Like she literally just got a surgery.

480
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,240
What do you mean we're going to do ten squats? Like, no,

481
00:25:18,319 --> 00:25:20,440
she's not. And I was like, oh, it's fine, Like

482
00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,799
we can do it whatever. As they set me up

483
00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:24,880
to a ninety degree and every time they would do that,

484
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,799
I would be like, please make sure my gown is

485
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,400
just covered everything, like I don't want to know what's

486
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,599
going on and I don't want to look at it nothing.

487
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,920
And so did the ten squats and I was like, oh,

488
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,200
don't worry, Like I can do another one because like

489
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I can push myself.

490
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Speaker 1: And then Kennedy looked down and for the first time

491
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she saw where her gown ended and that she didn't

492
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have a leg there at all. The tears flooded from

493
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her eyes.

494
00:25:50,839 --> 00:25:53,519
Speaker 2: I just started crying, and I remember looking at both

495
00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:55,119
my parents and I was like, you didn't tell me.

496
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,759
This is all I had left. What am I supposed

497
00:25:56,799 --> 00:25:59,400
to do with this? This is nothing? This is useless.

498
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,200
I can't believe this is my life. And I started

499
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,480
crying and my parents are just looking at me like

500
00:26:04,799 --> 00:26:07,160
we're so sorry, Like I don't know what to do,

501
00:26:07,759 --> 00:26:10,920
and I pull it together a few minutes later, and

502
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,640
then nurse just like, I think you should touch it,

503
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,720
and I was like, you're freaking crazy. I'm not touching

504
00:26:14,759 --> 00:26:17,039
that thing, like it's attached to me, but I want

505
00:26:17,079 --> 00:26:19,599
nothing to do with it, and she's like, okay, just

506
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,599
you do you. And obviously it was still like covered

507
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,839
in dressings, so I can't see the skin or anything

508
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,319
like that. But then I end up touching it and

509
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,680
I was like, okay, yeah, that's that's super weird.

510
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:32,319
Speaker 5: I don't like it.

511
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,079
Speaker 2: They were having me move my nub and circles and

512
00:26:37,039 --> 00:26:40,839
for some reason process so fast, and I started joking

513
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,000
and I was I've always had this thing where I

514
00:26:43,079 --> 00:26:46,279
name everything, and so I named my nub Gobi and

515
00:26:46,799 --> 00:26:49,559
as a boy. For some reason, I'm not sure why,

516
00:26:49,599 --> 00:26:52,400
but even kids referred to it as him. And it's

517
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,160
so funny because people are like, why is it a boy,

518
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:55,559
and I'm.

519
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Speaker 5: Like, I don't know, but even kids think it is,

520
00:26:57,319 --> 00:27:02,880
so it works. And I started moving around and saying,

521
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,200
go Goby, Gogobe.

522
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,319
Speaker 2: We're just laughing and I'm just singing it and you

523
00:27:07,319 --> 00:27:10,000
can hear like the weakness of my voice, and that

524
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:11,359
helped me a lot, being.

525
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Speaker 5: Able to cope with it.

526
00:27:12,759 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 2: And I think except that it was part of me

527
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,240
and who I was, and like even this day, I

528
00:27:18,319 --> 00:27:21,680
referred to it as Goby, and the nurses were like,

529
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,480
We've never seen someone that just like so fastly gets

530
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,759
over this. And I truly believe that it was God.

531
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Speaker 1: Only through the grace of God did the girl who

532
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,799
once wanted to die now want to live and live

533
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,799
like never before. In addition to her leg, her arm

534
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:46,240
was permanently changed, three nerves torn from her spine, two destroyed,

535
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,960
but she fought for every inch of movement, rewired muscles,

536
00:27:51,519 --> 00:27:55,000
train her mind to believe what her body still could become.

537
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,839
Speaker 2: And I truly believe that it was God that kind

538
00:27:57,839 --> 00:27:59,079
of gave me that kick in the butt of like,

539
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,000
here's a good attitude, Like I will give this to you,

540
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,200
but I'm not going to sit here and give it

541
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,200
to you for the rest of your life.

542
00:28:06,279 --> 00:28:07,319
Speaker 5: You have to uphold that.

543
00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 2: But I felt like she gave me those stepping stones

544
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,079
of a good attitude and happiness that like, it just

545
00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:18,039
made me flourish, and I never gave it up.

546
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,519
Speaker 1: Today Kennedy's darkest moments that become a light in her life.

547
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,920
She's now happily married and loves lifting weights with her husband.

548
00:28:27,599 --> 00:28:32,839
She competes, she trains, she inspires, and she knows why

549
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:33,440
she's here.

550
00:28:34,319 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 5: I experienced a miracle.

551
00:28:35,519 --> 00:28:39,559
Speaker 2: There was thousands, I believe, truly throughout the entire experience.

552
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,039
I think miracles happened to remind others that He is

553
00:28:43,079 --> 00:28:45,880
there and that miracles are absolutely higher power.

554
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: That night, on a country road in Idaho, everything that

555
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,400
should have killed Kennedy instead held her and saved her.

556
00:28:55,079 --> 00:28:58,079
The electricity that should have stopped her heart sealed the

557
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,799
artery in her arm. The wire that trapped her upside

558
00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:05,480
down acted as a tourniquet for her leg. The fall

559
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,279
that should have ended her life was stopped by a

560
00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:11,920
power line, and a delicate strip of skin that somehow

561
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,640
held strong. No, Kennedy hadn't just hung from a power line.

562
00:29:17,359 --> 00:29:21,200
She'd hung between Earth and heaven, and for reasons only

563
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,480
God knows when she could have slipped from this world forever,

564
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,880
the call didn't go through. She was meant to stay

565
00:29:29,559 --> 00:29:38,599
and change and truly live. Wow.

566
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Speaker 3: So much to talk about here.

567
00:29:40,359 --> 00:29:43,839
Speaker 4: First off, we have to talk about the miracle that

568
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,599
Kennedy experience, Like just the way she landed, I know,

569
00:29:47,839 --> 00:29:48,720
on those wires.

570
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,039
Speaker 1: I know when she was talking to us, and like

571
00:29:51,079 --> 00:29:53,440
she first told us that she got flung into these

572
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,200
wires and she got electrocuted. At first, I just thought

573
00:29:57,319 --> 00:30:01,079
that's like adding insult to injury. More she told us

574
00:30:01,799 --> 00:30:04,559
that's actually what saved her life. It's incredible. Yeah.

575
00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:08,559
Speaker 4: I could not believe that the top power line electrocated

576
00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:12,480
her and cauterized her brakial artery, and then the bottom

577
00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:15,920
line caught her and acted like a tourniquit for her

578
00:30:16,799 --> 00:30:18,720
femoral artery and her broken feet.

579
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Speaker 3: It's just incredible.

580
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I actually did a little research and I found that

582
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,839
if you tear your brachial artery, then you can usually

583
00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:30,559
bleed out in like five to ten minutes. If you

584
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,359
tear your femoral artery, usually it's like two to five minutes.

585
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,160
And she severed both in the accident, so like if

586
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,160
she hadn't been in the wire, she would have bled

587
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,680
out within just a few minutes. It's just crazy.

588
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is.

589
00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 4: Like without divine intervention, there is no way that Kennedy

590
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,519
should have survived. And her story touched so many lives.

591
00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:57,599
And there's someone in particular that really was affected by

592
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,799
her story. The father who lived in the farmhouse, who

593
00:31:01,319 --> 00:31:03,000
lived near the power lines.

594
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Speaker 3: Where she was hanging. Yeah, the one who prayed with

595
00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:05,759
his daughter.

596
00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 4: He had completely forgotten about God, didn't care about God,

597
00:31:10,359 --> 00:31:13,880
and this experience made him believe in God again. So

598
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,680
here's a SoundBite from Kennedy about that.

599
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Speaker 2: And the dad eventually came to my dad. I had

600
00:31:19,799 --> 00:31:22,519
this whole conversation and said, I haven't talked to God

601
00:31:22,559 --> 00:31:25,680
in over twenty years. I had no interest, in no

602
00:31:25,799 --> 00:31:29,279
interest in knowing about him or believeing in nothing.

603
00:31:29,319 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 5: And He's like in your daughter.

604
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 2: Like I immediately dropped to my knees with my daughter

605
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:35,640
and started praying for yours and I knew that was

606
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,599
all we could do for her, and he was like,

607
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,599
your daughter is the reason why I've even thought about

608
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,000
coming back to God.

609
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Speaker 4: I love that that, right there is the power of miracles,

610
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,000
right and obviously you have to stay close to God.

611
00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:54,759
Like one miracle can't just sustain you forever, but they

612
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,960
sure kick things off and really strengthen your faith.

613
00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:00,759
Speaker 3: So I thought that that was incredible.

614
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, remind you that God is real. And Kennedy is

615
00:32:04,359 --> 00:32:07,680
still using this miracle to share her faith with people.

616
00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:11,759
She also shared something with us about the firefighter and

617
00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:15,279
what he said to her. So here's Kennedy.

618
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Speaker 2: And I actually did a public speaking about with him,

619
00:32:18,039 --> 00:32:20,279
and he was like, immediately as soon as I was

620
00:32:20,279 --> 00:32:22,359
in your reach, you just like latched on and you

621
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,000
were like, thank you for helping me. I need help

622
00:32:25,039 --> 00:32:27,680
and I'm tired of fighting like all on my own.

623
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that moment?

624
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 4: No, just seeing her hanging there and knowing You've got

625
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,960
to be the one to help this girl down somehow.

626
00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:40,240
And yeah, I know, I'm sure his adrenaline just carried

627
00:32:40,319 --> 00:32:44,880
him through. But yeah, so many crazy miraculous moments throughout

628
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:45,880
this whole thing.

629
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Speaker 3: And one other thing we need to share.

630
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Speaker 4: We've got a video of her in the hospital talking

631
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:54,759
to Goby, her.

632
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 3: Little nub that she up.

633
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 4: Yes, we've got to share that. Like, she is so amazing.

634
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,160
I love her attitude.

635
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: Ro Goby, Goby, Oh, I go Guy Roy good we.

636
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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy is so inspirational to me. Like, if you follow

638
00:33:16,079 --> 00:33:20,960
her Instagram account Underscore kick It Kenny Underscore nine. It

639
00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:23,799
is amazing to see her attitude and the things that

640
00:33:23,839 --> 00:33:27,319
she's able to accomplish. Her and her husband are so cute.

641
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:28,599
Speaker 5: They're so adorable.

642
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: They work out together all the time. I mean, she

643
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:37,119
just did this High Rocks fitness competition run eight kilometers.

644
00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:41,680
There's like eight fitness challenges. It's just it's inspirational how

645
00:33:41,759 --> 00:33:44,039
much she's able to accomplish and her attitude.

646
00:33:44,359 --> 00:33:46,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think one of the most incredible parts of

647
00:33:46,559 --> 00:33:48,599
this miracle story is how.

648
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Speaker 3: It changed her.

649
00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, and just seeing how she's let God work on

650
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,160
her heart and soften her heart. It's really a beautiful thing.

651
00:33:56,559 --> 00:33:59,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so interesting. So often we hear people who

652
00:33:59,319 --> 00:34:03,200
go through these traumatic life changing events, very few of

653
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,400
them say they would go back and undo it. It's true,

654
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,079
she is so happy now, and in fact, she shared

655
00:34:10,119 --> 00:34:13,440
with us how this actually has really improved her relationship

656
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:14,519
with her parents.

657
00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 2: Me and my parents' relationships great Now. We're best friends

658
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,639
and we just have fun. And I was just so

659
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,480
grateful that they were so loving and supportive through my

660
00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:26,639
entire experience and have been there and pushed me and

661
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,559
got me involved in things. And so I think the

662
00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:33,719
accident actually brought our family so much closer than it

663
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:34,639
was even before.

664
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Speaker 3: I love that.

665
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 4: As a mom, I especially appreciate that I did too.

666
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:42,639
Speaker 3: It's really so well.

667
00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Kennedy for sharing your story with us.

668
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,760
It's incredible and we wish you and your husband and

669
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,159
your whole family so much love and happy.

670
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Speaker 1: And to your Stock your grandpa, Yes.

671
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 3: Good job Stock, your grandfather.

672
00:34:56,079 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: You were awesome too, You did it came in handy, came.

673
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 3: In handy well.

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00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,159
Speaker 4: We wish all of you the best, and we will

675
00:35:03,159 --> 00:35:05,800
continue to follow you and your story Kennedy as you

676
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:06,360
go forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you everyone for joining us today. If you

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00:35:09,199 --> 00:35:12,800
haven't already, make sure you subscribe to our podcast and

679
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,599
share this story with your friends and family who could

680
00:35:15,639 --> 00:35:18,840
use a reminder that God is still doing miracles today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 4: If you have a miracle to share, contact us at

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the Miracle files dot.

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Speaker 3: Com or find us on social media. We release new

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episodes each Monday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so don't forget Miracle Mondays. Subscribe on your favorite

687
00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:38,599
podcast platform and YouTube for amazing video content as well.

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Speaker 4: Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,

689
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and don't forget to look for His light in your

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own lives