Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark - “Sometimes I Forget I Don’t Have Any Arms.” – Interview with Madysen Acey
Episode Date: December 21, 2021At 10 years old Madysen Acey was electrocuted in a freak accident, leading to both of her arms being amputated. Her story is inspiring and full of grit. It’s a great reminder during this Holiday sea...son to be thankful and not take simple things for granted. Alex Clark asks not only about the accident, but also what it’s like living as a young woman and amputee in the dating world! Truly a can’t miss episode.Looking for like-minded friends? Join the Cuteservative Facebook group HERE.Liste...
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When I was about six years old, I slammed my face, face first onto a concrete slab and knocked one of my front teeth out.
Just imagine the grossest sound ever, and that is the noise my mouth made.
I still keep that tooth in a very special place, although I'm not going to tell you where.
Okay, actually I will.
It's in my underwear drawer in a little tooth case.
Real OG cute servatives, no, because I've talked about it in a poplitex episode before.
My own personal weirdness aside, we all have our childhood trauma stories and crazy injuries, am I right?
I mean, everything from broken arms to sprained ankles to stitches.
Scab knees are a childhood right of passage.
But there are some stories that go beyond the wounds that fade into scars.
Those are the sort of stories that sober up the idea of childhood for the ones who are forced to grow up because of extreme injuries.
They're also the sort of stories that heal into beautiful accounts of hope, courage, and so much.
meaning. Today's guest was once a little girl like so many of you listening. She had a bright
imagination, curiosity, and friends. She grew up in the sort of place where everyone knows everyone,
and playing outside was the norm. And when she was 10 years old, she was doing just that
at a friend's house. I'm sure the only thing on her mind that day was to just have fun. Being 10,
you have a little concept of time, but you're also starting to be more self-aware,
despite the fact that your childlike wonder is still intact.
It's supposed to be a great age, with one foot in childhood and the other starting to inch towards preteen years.
Our guest today had a friend that she was playing with this particular day who lived out on a bunch of land, which was a perfect place to explore.
So that's what they did, which led them to climbing onto a tractor.
And the tractor had been out of use for a long time, so it didn't really pose an obvious threat.
That is, until our guest slipped.
Out of a natural reaction, she grasped for whatever she could,
not even thinking that what she was about to take hold of would rewrite her story forever.
Near the tractor was a live power line, and that's exactly what her small hands reached for.
Immediately, 10,000 bolts went through her body and shot through her hands,
immediately killing her left hand and right arm and knocking her out cold.
Now, remember, she was 10 years old, and so was her friend, who was right by her son.
watching the entire ordeal. Help came, but they couldn't pry her hands from the wire easily.
She only came into consciousness once before going into a coma for an entire month. In the hours
and days following the ordeal, she went through multiple surgeries daily. Ultimately, her right
arm and left hand were amputated. Miraculously, though, she was alive, thanks to the rain boots
she was wearing, which prevented the electricity from shooting out of her feet. Had she not put
those shoes on, she wouldn't be here today. She's all grown up now and she has the most
incredible story of hope and resilience. Also, she's one of the prettiest people I have ever
met and I just know that you are going to love her. So please welcome Madison A.C.
To The Spillover with me, Alex Clark. What I love about you, Madison, is that you don't do
interviews a lot. No, I don't. You've done one other podcast and it was with your best friend.
Yep. So I'm so excited that you're here.
to share your story. And I'm just so thankful that you said yes to coming out here to Phoenix from
Mississippi. She's from Mississippi. She's like, you're going to hear my southern accent. I said,
do you not worry about that, Madison, because that's what people love. It's so endearing. The guys are
going to think it's cute. I know, but it can get bad sometimes. Okay, so I kind of previewed your
story, and I did like the summary version, but obviously I want you to give all of the detail from
that day when you were 10 years old. So let's start.
That day, 10 years old, what were you doing in the moments leading up to your accident?
Me and one of my childhood best friends were out playing her dad's a farmer.
And so right across the street from their house is a bunch of farm equipment and like shops and stuff.
And we started our day cleaning an old barn that we weren't supposed to be in.
It was just for like all their equipment and extra equipment that was sitting in there.
And we were bored so we wanted to clean the barn.
So we were in there sweeping and stuff.
and then we decided that
I don't like it's a very fog
memories like I know the gist of it
it was we started out in this barn
and then somehow we ended up
over
there was like old tractors lined up
on the side of the field
and we ended up over there
and next thing I know
I was on top of the tractor
and I had on rubber cowgirl rain boots
because those were in style
And I actually wasn't even supposed to have them on because they were her older sisters.
And she wasn't home, so I got to steal them to wear them for the day.
But so the toe of it, like the pointed part, got called on top of the tractor.
And I went to fall from off the top of the tractor and grabbed the live power line that was hanging low from a storm from the past.
When you grab onto that power line, is it just immediate power line?
pain, do you feel anything?
Do you just black out?
I don't remember any of it.
I remember waking up.
I don't remember how it felt to grab the power line.
Like, I remember waking up, and I didn't feel anything, but I could, like, hear everything
and see everything.
And I was, like, the farmhand, he, him and his son were working in the middle of the field,
and they ran over and, like, grabbed me.
And he was holding me, well, it took him a little bit to make the,
them for them to convince me to let go of the power line because they couldn't touch me.
Were your arms still like attached or did they blow off or what happened?
They were just like melted.
Like it looked like my arms, the bones, it looks like the bones had melted and like they
were sunken in on the, like in the middle and they were like crispy.
Like they were burnt.
And then I had tie-dye wrist from my silly bands.
Oh my gosh.
Wait, this is like the silly bands just really paint this.
All up the forearm.
All up my forearm.
Okay, so that's just like almost funny.
The silly band aspect.
I mean, because every 10 year old though, I remember that.
Like, everybody had silly bands.
And so, but I, you know, it's crazy to think about like a crazy tragic accident like that happening with the silly bands on.
That really paints the picture, though, of how young you really were.
Oh, and my outfit was all justice in my Claire's earrings.
It's kind of iconic.
Like we're kind of like making like humor in like a really dark situation.
But like it's kind of iconic.
Okay.
So when your friend, your other friend, she has to see this all happening.
Is she screaming?
She ran inside and told her mom.
She didn't know what was going on.
We were 10 years old.
She just ran aside and said that Madison's dead.
And her mom was like, what are you talking about?
You know, I'm not like sure on what details of what, how that happened for
them because I was in a little different situation.
But they were like, I think she might have thought that I got bit by a snake or something.
The mom or the girl?
But the little girl.
But wasn't she seeing her right there?
She sees you grab the power line.
Well, I don't think she, like, saw me grab it.
She just saw me hurt after.
Okay.
So had you fallen off the power line then?
No.
I was just on the top of the tractor, like, holding it.
I don't know.
I guess she just didn't, it didn't all click with her just because of everything going on.
When her parents came then to approach you or was it her mother, they couldn't pull you off?
It was the worker, one of the workers. He couldn't touch me because if he would have touched me, it would have electrocuted him too.
He had to just convince me to let go of it. But I was like foaming and like out of, like I was not conscious.
Like, so he was trying to figure out how to do it. And finally, I came to and let go.
and then he held me because I couldn't touch anything
because it blew like a hole in my hip
in my back. That's where it exited.
But the rainboats are what saved me because they were rubber.
And the hole on my hip was so big
that you could put a softball in it
and like not see it.
Was there blood gushing?
Mm-mm.
It was just like smoke.
Like it looked like fire.
When the paramedics or whatever finally come,
Do you remember that?
Yes.
I remember them handing me down, like, trying to get me off the top of the tractor.
And they put me in the ambulance and they wrapped me in the stuff that looked like Temple.
I don't know what it was for.
But I remember that.
And then the woman taking out my earrings.
And then they cut off my, they cut up my justice shirt.
I was very upset about that.
I literally remember being like, you can't cut me.
my shirt. And the woman actually saved those earrings and gave them to me, because this was April
25th, 2010. My birthday's June 22nd. And my, the MTV drivers, they came to my birthday party,
and she brought me the earrings that she had taken off me that day in the ambulance.
I love that. Do you still have them?
I'm sure somewhere. I think they're in like a box upstairs. You should put those in like a shadow box.
You know what I'm talking about and frame it, like those little shadow boxes? That'd be so cute.
Okay, so when you finally woke up, or you're conscious, all this time has passed, you're at the hospital, everybody's running around, what do you remember about being in the hospital? Did they tell you we're going to have to take your arms off or did you not wake up until after that it already happened?
Well, when we left, so we were in the, I was in the ambulance and we drove down the road just a little bit to get to the helicopter and I was airlifted to Memphis and the last thing I remember is being put into the helicopter.
And I was in Labonner for that day at Labonar.
They imitated my right arm instantly.
And so I don't like remember that.
And then I was flown to Shriners in Cincinnati.
And they kept my,
they tried to keep my left hand as long as possible.
But they like slowly brought it back and back until it was like okay.
The affection was gone.
So I woke like, I was there for 38 days.
And I only remember the last week or two.
But it, so when I woke up, it's kind of like I had already known that I didn't have arms anymore.
So it wasn't like a shock.
How long were you in a coma for?
I wasn't.
I just was on a morphine pump.
Okay.
Was there ever a moment that you thought that you were going to die or did you just think I'm really hurt but I'm going to be fine?
I was just, I don't remember.
remember thinking I was going to die. I just remember thinking like what is going on. Like I thought
everyone was like like it was so like crazy and wild. I thought everyone was lying to me and like
telling like making stuff up. I was like no I'm fine. Nothing's wrong with me. And so that was when you
were 10. How old are you now? 22. How many surgeries from 10 till now have you actually over
undergone? Hmm. 48 or something like that because I've had surgeries throughout the years like
cosmetically to make the scar smaller and stuff like that.
Obviously, you were really young when this happened,
but how do you process going through an injury like that at 10 years old
when you finally get home from the hospital?
Now you go one day from having two hands to another day not having any hands.
How does a 10-year-old go through that?
Do you feel like you went through depression at 10 years old?
No, I think it's not as bad since I was.
so young. I mean, my goal, like, I wasn't thinking, oh, I'm hurt. Like, I was like, I'm ready to
be a kid again. So, like, that, it never crossed my mind to have a poor me moment and be sad. I just
got back into my life. And, like, I mean, literally the week I got home from the hospital,
I was still in pressure garments, which is what you have to wear when you're burnt, when you have
burns on your body. The, my neighbors got a full wheeler and they put a, tied the trash can top to
with a rope to the back of the fuller and I was on it and just riding around.
I love that.
I never had a moment to be sad.
Yeah, you never let anything slow you down.
Okay, so one thing I want to know is, I'm guessing, was it physical therapists and stuff like that that were teaching you?
Here's how you're going to do things now with no hands.
There was in the hospital.
There was a, I had to do therapy every day, occupational therapy, physical therapy.
I had to learn to walk again.
And there was this one lady.
who helped me figure out how to write and stuff.
How do you write?
I have this little band that fits on my arm,
and it's actually made for people with arthritis
when their fingers curl up and you can't use them anymore.
It's a band that goes onto the palm of your hand
and, like, it has a little hole.
You can stick, like, forks and anything in it.
I write with it, eat, makeup, everything.
So do you just keep it in your purse?
I have hundreds of them everywhere.
You can get them for like $10 on Amazon.
That's fascinating.
I also have prosthetics in my closet floor.
Okay, so yes, that's interesting.
You have prosthetics, but they're on your closet floor or you're not wearing them.
Why aren't you wearing prosthetics?
Because I was so young when it happened, and I didn't get them until sophomore, junior year in high school.
So I'd already learned because insurance said that hands aren't medically necessary.
What do you mean?
Interns said hands aren't medically necessary.
They said that I didn't need hands
and said that they weren't paying for them
So I didn't get them
I'd already learned how to do everything
By the time I did get them
And so once you got them
You were just like, you know what, I don't even need these
We just got them to prove a point
At that point
I know I didn't need them
That's unbelievable
Are you still friends with the girl who witnessed your accident?
Yep
I saw her the other day
She thought that you were dead
Did she go through any type of PTSD
after that or any
anxiety or just
mental health issues, just
seeing her friend like that, I would
feel like I would be so traumatized.
Not that I'm sure
she has, but that's
a subject that she does not speak about.
That's interesting, so you guys never have spoken
about it really, you don't talk about your accident or that
day? Not into detail.
Like, and if people bring it up,
like, the conversation
gets shut down. By her, not
you. Oh, I'm very open.
about it. Like, I make jokes about it. I mean, can't go back. I love that. You know, I'm going to
tell you something. I was, I was saying to my, to my team, I was like, you know, if I was in a
tragic accident, like, if something like this ever happens to me, I would, like, be the reels
queen. I would be making all sorts of, like, dark jokes. I would do. I would be making
reels and doing all this stuff because, like, you have to make light of a situation that's so
tragic like this. Do you feel like you kind of do that kind of stuff with your friends? Oh, it's so bad.
No, like I make strangers uncomfortable. Like I'll make, like, say we're in a group and there's
people that don't know me yet. I'll make a comment and they sit there and they don't know whether
to smile or laugh. And then I'm like, it's funny. You're right. You can laugh. It's okay.
And you were in a sorority in Ole Miss. Yes. What was it like rushing and joining a sorority
when they first see you and you come on the scene and you have no hands? What was that moment like rushing?
Well, since I grew up only an hour from Ole Miss, they all were very aware of me and who I was Cohen.
And so they all wanted me in their sorority.
They all wanted the handless girl in their sorority.
And so every time I'd walk in the room, they'd all just block over to me.
I was just like, I know.
Here we go.
But it was actually terrifying because all these girls were screaming in your face.
And I was just like, what sorority were you in?
Kappa, capa, gamma.
Okay.
And is that the, I'm assuming you would say that's the best sorority to be in if you're going to Olmiss?
Over the past few years, it has become, I think it's number one right now.
Because I have never, like, watched Rush TikTok and all that stuff, and that all became popular this year.
And so for the first time I was watching that with, like, Bama Rush.
It's cringy.
Bama Rush is cringy, like compared to Ole Miss, you mean?
All of it is.
Do you do all that stuff they do?
Yes.
Okay.
Did you have a favorite?
I have to ask, did you have a favorite of those TikTok Rush girls?
I don't, I tried not to watch it.
It brought back PTSD from.
Right?
I mean, we would spend hours, like 3 a.m. in the sorority house, jumping, screaming.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay, so when you finally went back to school when you were a kid, after your accident, what did you learn about how other children process trauma?
So, like, they're like, Maddie, you came back, and I have no hands.
Were they just really curious, asking a lot of questions?
How did they react to you?
Well, so my school was very, very small.
My graduating class was 11.
So when I went back to school, I think there was 12 of us.
And we were all, we'd all grown up together.
We were all best friends.
And they had already been, like, some of them flew up to the hospital to see me.
So most of them had already understood and everyone's parents, like, told them, you know.
Some of them were very attentive, like one of my best friends, his name is Maddox.
He was my neighbor at the time too.
He was always like, Maddie, you need help?
like always always helping me
and then sometimes people would be like scared
like they'd want to help me
but they were like oh my gosh
what do I do?
You know I did an episode
about a month ago or so with
Medley who is a
burn survivor and I
asked her that when you're out in public and people
are staring or clearly want to ask questions
would you rather that they treated you like normal
like you absolutely have hands
or would you rather they just ask you
I would rather just ask
I mean if you're going to stare ask
but if not
I mean it's whatever
it doesn't bother me as much anymore as it used to
because they're just curious
when you were little
was there ever a period where you were bullied
with your disability or no
no I got very lucky
going to a small private Christian school
is we only have one incident one time
with one boy
and my girlfriend handled that very quick and it never happened again.
I love that. That's the perks of going to a Southern school, you know?
What is something that able-bodied people can do that you do get jealous of?
Hmm.
Hair.
Like being able to do their own hair?
Yes, it's so frustrating.
Like, explaining, because the only thing physically that I cannot do, like, all together of any category, is putting my hair in a ponytail.
It's the only thing I can.
can I do. And it's so frustrating trying to explain to someone how I want my hair done because I know
and I know how to do it, but I can't do it and then they're not doing it right. Oh, it's so
frustrating. It's so frustrating. I got these extensions and I was like, you know, if I'm going to
invest in this hair, it's so much hair to like blow dry in style. I was like, I'm going to dry bar
and I'm just going to get a blowout once a week. So I don't even do my hair either because I hate it.
Yeah. That's what I do.
Yeah, but I can brush it.
I just figured out, well, I learned how to brush it, I think, sophomore year in high school, and it was not very effective.
But like, it kind of got the job done. I would, like, flip my hair over and brush it on the side of the bed.
But now I can use my cuff.
Oh, the little tool.
Can you explain what phantom pain is, and if you ever experience it?
It is awful.
I had it only from April to August I had it.
And it feels like your hands,
like it felt like I could feel my hand inside of my arm right here
trying to grow out of it.
And it on this side.
And it hurts.
And that's what people experience when they have had like amputations.
It's miserable. It's awful.
And it usually does not stop.
But when I broke my femur, my body,
started focusing on that pain and so the phantom pain stopped i think a lot of people at least
young girls and stuff i know for me when i think of people that have had amputations or missing
limbs or things like that the two people that come to mind for me are bethany hamilton and loren scrux
and you actually have gotten to know and become friends with both of them right so i can talk to
learn almost every day talk about that that's so cool they are two like they are the nicest people
they don't like people are always
assume like oh they're like famous they're not like
they are so genuine
and it's really interesting
watching like Bethany's so
like confident and comfortable
being an ampute
and go into the retreat
Lauren was not
comfortable like she was always with her prosthetic
on never
was seen without it and over the years
like she's getting better about it
she'll text me and be like
I didn't wear my prosthetic
or show it. I'm like, they're awesome.
Bethany Hamilton has a retreat for fellow amputees, and are they all girls or is it girls and guys?
All girls. And how long have you been going to this?
I started going when I was 14.
Where does it take place?
San Diego. Well, Del Marr, it's right outside of San Diego. And then one year it was in Hawaii.
And they had it this year, too, in Hawaii. But I haven't gone in the past two years.
How many people go?
It started out.
I think there was like eight of us.
And I think the last time I went, maybe 16 or 17 of us.
And so it's a tight-knit group.
You guys become really close friends.
And there's new girls that come throughout the years,
but there's a few of us that have been to pretty much all of them.
And, like, we're friends now.
And they live all across the years.
And what kinds of injuries do these girls have?
Anything you could think of.
A lot of ATV accidents.
a botched ACL surgery.
Ooh.
Yeah.
One of their family dogs ripped her arm off.
And then one girl, her mom dropped a cigarette in her crib when she was an infant and called her on fire.
And so she used an amputee now.
Oh, my gosh.
What are the differences between hanging out with those girls?
those amputee friends of yours versus friends who have their limbs?
It's not much different.
I actually am more comfortable being with my friends that have hands
because when you're around other girls that don't have hands,
you're like seeing what they're doing.
You don't know if you're doing it right.
So you're like, oh my gosh, wait, I should be doing it like that.
And then you just get insecure about all the stuff you do
and you think you're doing it wrong.
But people with the hands, I feel,
Normal, I guess you say.
I always think about how the left really makes victimhood of virtue.
And you grew up in the South, you have very conservative parents.
And we see this ideology being pushed on campuses all across the country that victimhood is cool.
Everyone wants to be a victim of something.
So how does it make you feel when you see peers of yours complain about how hard life is here in America,
while you have spent most of your life really overcoming the impossible?
Well, I don't, I mean, it's annoying when I hear people, like, poor me and all this kind of stuff.
But it's hard to compare because I don't, I don't have that mindset.
Like, I don't ever think to myself, oh, I've had it so bad or I've had it so rough.
I've just lived life.
But don't you think that's what's frustrating about people that have that mindset is that,
I feel like that is the true American mindset is to be an overcomer and to not let those things cripple you for, you know, use like.
What's the point? Then it happened for nothing and you just wasted your life.
Exactly. And that's what I love about your story. And so how have values from your family helped kind of instill that strength and resilience in you when things really did get tough?
I've just always known that God would not have done this to me if there was not a very,
and he had a purpose for it.
And I just, it'd be a waste to not just keep living life to the fullest.
So that's always been what I've held on to.
Happened for a reason.
I do want to talk about dating with you a little bit.
Just because obviously a lot of us are using apps and stuff.
And I want to know, one, if you're using apps like hinge, Bumble, if you do, do you address
in the bio and little caption.
Like, yes, obviously in my pictures, I have no arms.
Or, you know, when do you discuss this with guys, like, talk about the injury?
Obviously, you're, you just graduated from college.
So guys on campus see you, they know you, they know you don't have hands.
They run.
Do they, are they scared to date you?
Has dating been hard for you?
It's not, which from people that have told me, like guy friends and stuff, they say that it's intimidating.
It's not that they are scared, which I mean, I'm sure there are some people out there that are.
like it's natural I guess
but most of the time
guys are just like
intimidated and they don't know what to do
they just dating hasn't been hard
because of an ampity
dating's just hard because dating is hard
I mean wait that is a freaking quote
that should be a shirt
you should make a sweatshirt or something
and come out with merch that says that
I've had a few good quotes that I've just thrown out over the years
and I'm like oh look at me
That is pretty freaking good.
Okay, so are you on the apps then?
I don't have them, but sometimes we'll get them for fun just to mess around with people.
And I will make sure to, like, put pictures that show I don't have hands.
And sometimes I think they, like, they'll be like, oh, my gosh, I didn't even notice you don't have arms because you're so beautiful.
I'm like, you're, it's cringy.
You're like, come up with a better line.
You just not address it.
Just we know.
We can sell from the pictures.
We don't have to talk about it.
When you have, I mean, have you been in some serious relationships?
So in those serious relationships, do you, is it hard for you to be like, I just wish that I could hold hands with somebody, just normal things like that?
That was in my first relationship.
I dated a guy for four and a half years in like high school and freshman year of college.
And it was, it ran through my mind.
a lot, but he always used to like hold my nub, and so it made me feel better.
That's so cute. Do you have total feeling in the nub of your arm? Yes, I do. Wow. I did cry the
first time he did that, though. Every time any, I've only had two guys do that, both my ex-boyfriends,
and I've cried both times the first time they did it. Why did you cry? I don't know,
because it's like, it's a very insecure part, not insecure, but like, it's a very, this is my
nub like don't touch it I don't want people touching my nub and then being okay with like holding my arm
it was very comforting I guess you'd say it was like true love that they were willing to do that
I guess you'd say that one of your most insecure parts I'm sure yeah when you cry and stuff
how do you how do you wipe tears just with the nub mm-hmm my nubby that's so cute okay I haven't
break down every day don't we all I love crying
How often do you think about climbing onto that tractor that day?
Honestly, not very often.
People think I'm like making it up sometimes.
I don't ever think about my accident.
I forget I don't have hands.
It's just my normal life.
Unless someone ask me about it, it just never comes up.
Have you thought about going and speaking at elementary schools
and doing more public speaking?
I spoke in an elementary school one time.
It's not a good idea.
Why? What happened?
I mean, they're kids.
Kindergarteners don't understand what I am.
They think I'm like an alien or something.
Some of them were like, oh my gosh, that's so cool look.
And some of them are like, oh, like go cry on the corner.
So I just try not to teach, talk to children.
What I really like about you is that you're such a beautiful girl.
you have an amazing bright spirit,
you have a great sense of humor,
and you just graduated college.
So I know that you're kind of figuring things out,
what you want to do.
Do you have any idea at all?
I'm going to get my interior design license,
and that's what I'll be doing.
Okay, good.
Well, I'll have to hire you then
because I was just thinking that I needed
to redo my entire apartment,
and I have no idea where to start.
So that's like short picture,
like short-term picture,
Madison interior designer, but Madison AC, old and gray, this is a long time from now.
What do you hope that she is like and what do you hope she has accomplished?
I hope when I'm old and gray, I hope I have kids and grandkids and that I have had a
successful business and maybe do some public speaking throughout the years.
Not sure yet.
Have Lauren or Bethany asked you to do some public speaking events and things like that?
I did one.
It was a small event, but I did a public speaking event in Hawaii when I was at the Bethany Treat one time.
And that's the only time I've ever done public speaking.
For any cute servitives who are not able-bodied, what is your advice to them?
What would you say to them?
Just the different insecurities they go through, the struggle.
they go through self-esteem issues.
They may go through comparisons.
I think I would say, which this quote, I guess, could go for any,
I put it on any angle possible.
Life is not about what you've lost.
It's about what you have.
Don't dwell on what you've lost or other people's, like other people.
Don't focus on them.
Focus on yourself and find anything to make you happy.
And just focus on that.
I always say just focus on the good.
And you can find good in any situation.
And just hold on to that.
And you'll be all right.
Where can people follow you on Instagram, Madison?
At Maddie underscore AC.
And how do you spell it?
M-A-D-Y-U-S-E-Y.
Thank you for coming on the spillover.
Thank you.
If Madison isn't the sweetest cinnamon roll that you've ever seen or heard,
you've got to see her, though.
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you've got to see this girl. When I first heard her story, I just knew that she is someone who so many people need to hear from because she was dealt a card in life so specific but also incredibly universal. Like what do you do when something happens that you totally don't deserve, but you're dealt the card anyway? You keep going. And I find it so refreshing to talk with people who have actually gone through something hard and actively work to defy the odds and overcome the situation, especially because like I said, we
live in a society where people glorify suffering. Technically, Madison is a victim of a horrible
accident, but her life says otherwise. She isn't defined by what she can't do. Instead, her life
flourishes because of what she can do. And I think we all can be a little bit more like that
under way less drastic circumstances. Just my food for thought. Anywho, if you haven't clicked
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Love you meet it.
Bye.
up on the block in a big corbette yeah
ride around the field with a stick all black
I'm trying with folk and we went out
yeah yeah yeah yeah
