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    One Smile, One Arm: Life Experiences with One Arm
    One Smile, One Arm: Life Experiences with One Arm
    One Smile, One Arm: Life Experiences with One Arm
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    One Smile, One Arm: Life Experiences with One Arm

    By Becky Alexander

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    Experience life with one arm through twenty-five heartwarming stories. Laugh, gasp, contemplate, and be inspired.

    In Dumbest Question, Becky is asked if she's right-handed or left-handed.
    In Crushed, a stranger says Becky's family must have done something bad for her to have been born with one arm.
    In JFK, Becky's mom writes a letter to the president of the United States and gets a response.
    In Friday Night Lights, Becky's dad manufactures a prosthetic hand using the mechanism from an ice-cream scooper.
    In "Bionic Woman," the Six Million-Dollar Man comes to Becky's rescue.
    In "Capitol Hill," a United States Congressman helps Becky when her arm activates security alarms in Washington, D.C.

    One Smile, One ArmYou may never look at a normal day the same again!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJun 5, 2013
    ISBN9781449796044
    One Smile, One Arm: Life Experiences with One Arm
    Author

    Becky Alexander

    Becky Alexander enjoys working with children and senior citizens. A senior herself, she says no matter what your age, you can still be young at heart. Walking, swimming, and riding her bike on the sunny beaches of Florida are among her favorite pastimes.

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      One Smile, One Arm - Becky Alexander

      Copyright © 2013 Becky Alexander.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright (c) by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

      Scripture taken from the Amplified Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-9605-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-9606-8 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-9604-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013909252

      WestBow Press rev. date: 05/31/2013

      Contents

      JFK

      New Watch

      Girl Fight

      Skating Rink

      The Ogre

      Bionic Woman

      Custard-Filled Doughnuts

      Friday Night Lights

      Crushed

      Prissy Girls

      iPod Arm

      Dumbest Question

      Fire at Sea

      Capitol Hill

      Green Fingernails

      The Birdcage

      Egg Cracking

      The Joke’s on You

      House of Horrors

      Jingling Sound

      South Carolina Shrimp

      Restroom Escapades

      Alabama Heat

      A Scholarship for Isaac

      My Next Fifty Years

      I dedicate this book to my parents,

      Mark and Truby Selby,

      who taught a little handicapped girl that she was not handicapped at all.

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      My first prosthesis

      JFK

      My left side was messed up at birth. My leg turned inward, and I had no elbow, forearm, or hand. The doctor put a cast on my leg that led to my hip, which I wore for the first three months of my life. I learned to roll over by tossing the cast across my other leg, which would then flip me over. Thankfully, the casting procedure worked; my leg straightened out, and I had no further problems with it.

      Mom quickly began the pursuit of a prosthetic arm for me. She learned that a prescription was required to start the process. When she asked the pediatrician for one, his response caught her off guard.

      No, he stated. You need to let Becky get old enough to decide for herself if she wants a prosthesis.

      Mom didn’t agree. She felt that my getting a prosthesis as an infant would make it easier for me to get used to it and would help me as I developed

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