miracle by elizabeth scott - extended excerpt

7/31/2019 Miracle by Elizabeth Scott - Extended Excerpt

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A L S O B Y E L I Z A B E T H S C O T T

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Perect You

Living Dead Girl

Something, Maybe

Te Unwritten Rule

Between Here and Forever


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I rip open the tiny bag o pretzels with my teeth and stare out

the rain-wet window at the clouds, which are gathering thick and

dark. I saved the pretzels till now because the last part o the ight

is so boring. Once you cross into Clark County its all trees. Te only

reason Reardon even has an airport is because o the Park Service.

Stupid orest. I remember how, on the ight out, when we took of

the trees seemed so close to the plane, kind o like they are

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Girl Survives Plane Crash, Walks To Saety

By Gina Worshon

In what can only be termed a miracle, a survivor o

Flight 619 somehow walked out o the Round Hills

National Forest and then agged down a passing

motorist.

Megan Hathaway (pictured right), a rising senior

at Reardon High and star soccer player who was

returning rom training camp when the plane crashed,

waved down Joyce Johnson on her way to work.

I dont normally stop or hitchhikers, Mrs. Johnson

said, but this girl was standing in the middle o the

road. She didnt even have shoes on. I thought maybe

shed been attacked.

Miss Hathaway was pronounced dead by the

Sheris Ofce over thirty-six hours earlier, and her

parents, arriving in Staunton to learn o their daughters

fnal moments, instead ound out she was alive. Miss


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Hathaway is currently at LaMotte Memorial Medical

Center, where she is being held or observation. She is

expected to make a ull recovery.

Flight 619 crashed in Round Hills National Forest

shortly ater it began its descent toward the Reardon

airport. Rescue crews were sent out but ran into

problems battling a thunderstorm. It took them over

twelve hours to reach the plane and when they did,

according to the party leader, Stauntons own Sheri

Andrew Green, they ound no survivors.

We did all we could, Green said when asked how

Miss Hathaway hadnt been ound. No one should

have been able to walk away rom that crash. Miss

Hathaway truly is a miracle.

Rg w a was a, sma ac. Memorial

Service Unites Families in Grie. I sad k a , m

s z as s as I ad:

Family, riends, and members o the community all

turned out to remember Flight 619 victims: Park

Service employees Walter Pelt, 24, and Sandra Lee,

27, as well as Clark resident Carl Brown, 52, and pilot

Henry Roberts, 65.


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doesnt move, and when I go back to him there is nothing to eel in

his throat and his skin is wet and cooling. Te rain smells like metal,

like blood, and keeps pouring into his open eyes, making tears. I

lean over his ace, covering him rom the rain, watching his eyes as

I wipe his mouth with my shirt. He doesnt blink. His chest doesnt

rise and all. He doesnt see that we have lived.

Come on, I say, pleading, but he doesnt answer.

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me about the crash, smd sag. ell me your

story, let me hear what a miracle you are. Let me be a part o it.

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