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In The Name of Love

Arriving home after her part-time job at Burger King, Lykesia Lilly planned to shoot some hoops. It was late afternoon on a Sunday. Maybe she’d even play some one-on-one with her little nephew Adrian before dinner.
But when Lilly, 18, asked her sister where the boy was, her casual question was met with concern. “I was outside looking for him because his dad and I realized we hadn’t seen him in a while,” recalls Adrian’s mother, Stephanie Crump, 29, an insurance agent. “He was supposed to be playing at a house down the street, but when we called, he wasn’t there.”
In their tiny, rural community of Burnsville, North Carolina (pop. 1,644), kids still run freely from yard to yard, popping in and out of single-story brick houses with tree-lined lawns. Even traffic poses little threat. The hamlet’s center consists of a single blinking caution light and two stores. But on that sunny May afternoon, six-years-old Adrian Clark seemed to have simply dissapear. Much of his close and extended family joined in a hysterial search, seeking the neighborhood and the first grader’s usual play spots.
Finally, they heard far-off cries coming from below a heap of rocks piled on his grandmother’s lawn. “We could hear him, but we couldn’t see him,” recalls Lilly. “It was like he was invisible.”
Following his voice, they stumbled on an abandoned well covered with landscaping shale that had been forgotten for years. There, down the dark, narrow shaft, they saw him─a small figure 15 feet below, suspended over water.
From the lip of the well, the family tried to reassure the child. But they had o idea how to get him out. The well was only 14 inches wide at the top, “the size of a five-gallon bucket,” says Crump. “We realized none of the adults could fit through it.” They lowered a long orange extension cord, but Adrian─who’d slipped into the dark, freezing water three times by now─was too afraid to let go of the wall to wrap the lifeline around himself.
Fighting hysteria, Crump made two calls to 911. One reached the local volunteer fire department, and the other, the Anson County EMS dispatcher, 13 miles away. Sirens wailed across town, alerting volunteers, but Crump still worried that Adrian would lose his grip before they got there.
That’s when Lilly decided she had to go down─despite her inability to swim. “Everyone was panicking and crying, and I knew I couldn’t wait any longer,” she recalls. “I just had to get my nephew.”
Crump and Adrian’s father, Dale Clark, lowered Lilly down the shaft as far as they could, then let go. The well got wider part of the way down, and she slid past her nephew and into the water below.
Fortunately, Lilly instinctively pushed off the bottom, 12 feet underwater, and surfaced just under Adrian. “I got focused,” she says. “My legs are so long, so I put one foot on the wall on either side of the well and held myself up.” With the water level just under her nose, Lilly then bolstered her 100-pound nephew, who was shaking in his soaking clothes.
With one arm, she grabbed the cord that Adrian’s father was dangling from above and tied it around Adrian’s waist. “I was pushing him and holding on with my legs while they were pulling,” Lilly says. “Somehow they got him out. I believe God was with us that day.”
Lilly herself was pulled out just as the rescue squad arrived. “In the 20 years I’ve been a paramedic, we’ve never had to rescue a child from a well,” says Anson County EMS supervisor Linda Yow, adding, “I’m amazed that this young girl had absolutely no concern for her own safety.”
Both Adrian and Lilly were taken to the hospital, where he was blanketed with heat packs to ward off hypothermia and she was treated for bruises and injury. County workers sealed the well for good a few days later.
The next week, Crump threw a surprise party to honor the gentle-natured teen, who in the past had expressed fear of even the tamer rides at a nearby amusement park.
“I think, Lord, if my baby had drowned, if he hadn’t been able to hold on...” Crump says. “I can’t thank Lykesia enough.” Now working in a day-care center, Lilly is hoping for a scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina, where she wants to study forensics. “She’s more serious and responsible now,” observes Crump. “I don’t think she knew she had it in her.”
Lilly and Adrian have been uniquely close since the resue.
“He reminds me all the time,” she says fondly. “He’ll say, ‘Thank you, Auntie, for saving me.’ And he’ll hug me. Just out of the blue.
“Or”, she adds with a laugh, “when he wants something.”

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Atas nama cintaTiba di rumah setelah pekerjaan paruh waktu di Burger King, Lykesia Lilly berencana untuk menembak beberapa rintangan. Itu sore hari pada hari Minggu. Mungkin ia akan bahkan bermain beberapa satu-satu dengan keponakannya sedikit Adrian sebelum makan malam.Namun ketika Lilly, 18, ditanya kakaknya di mana anak itu, pertanyaannya kasual dipenuhi dengan kepedulian. "Saya di luar mencari-Nya karena ayahnya dan aku menyadari kita tidak melihatnya dalam beberapa saat," kenang Adrian ibu, Stephanie Crump, 29, agen asuransi. "Ia harus bermain di sebuah rumah di jalan, tetapi ketika kita disebut, dia tidak ada."Dalam kecil, pedesaan komunitas mereka Burnsville, North Carolina (pop. 1,644), anak-anak masih berjalan bebas dari halaman ke halaman, bermunculan dan keluar dari rumah-rumah satu lantai bata dengan pohon-pohon rumput. Lalu lintas bahkan menimbulkan sedikit ancaman. Atraksi pusat terdiri dari lampu peringatan berkedip satu dan dua toko. Tetapi pada Mei sore yang cerah, enam-tahun-tua Adrian Clark tampaknya memiliki hanya hilang. Banyak keluarga dekat dan diperpanjang bergabung dalam pencarian hysterial, lingkungan dan bintik-bintik biasa bermain anak kelas pertama.Akhirnya, mereka mendengar teriakan yang jauh datang dari bawah tumpukan batu-batu yang menumpuk pada rumput neneknya. "Kita bisa mendengar dia, tapi kami tidak bisa melihat dia," kenang Lilly. "Itu seperti ia tak terlihat."Setelah suara-Nya, mereka tersandung pada ditinggalkan baik ditutupi dengan lansekap serpih yang sudah dilupakan selama bertahun-tahun. Sana, turun poros sempit, gelap, mereka melihat him─a kecil angka 15 kaki di bawah, tergantung di atas air.Dari bibir sumur, keluarga mencoba untuk meyakinkan anak. Tapi mereka memiliki o ide bagaimana untuk mendapatkan dia keluar. Sumur hanya 14 inci di atas, "ukuran ember galon lima," kata Crump. "Kami menyadari bahwa tak satu pun dari orang-orang dewasa bisa muat melalui itu." Mereka menurunkan jeruk panjang kabel, tetapi Adrian─who telah menyelinap ke gelap, pembekuan air tiga kali oleh now─was terlalu takut untuk melepaskan dari dinding untuk membungkus lifeline sekitar dirinya.Pertempuran histeria, Crump membuat dua panggilan ke 911. Satu mencapai pemadam kebakaran sukarela lokal, dan yang lain, operator Anson County EMS, 13 mil jauhnya. Sirene Lolong di seluruh kota, memperingatkan sukarelawan, tapi Crump masih khawatir bahwa Adrian akan kehilangan pegangannya sebelum mereka sampai di sana.Itu adalah ketika Lilly memutuskan dia harus pergi down─despite tidak bisa berenang. "Semua orang panik dan menangis, dan aku tahu aku tidak bisa menunggu lebih lama lagi," Dia mengingatkan. "Saya hanya harus mendapatkan keponakan saya."Crump dan Adrian ayah, Dale Clark, menurunkan Lilly poros sejauh mereka bisa, kemudian membiarkan pergi. Sumur turun lebih luas bagian dari jalan, dan dia meluncur melintasi keponakannya dan ke dalam air di bawah ini.Untungnya, Lilly naluriah didorong bagian bawah, 12 kaki di bawah, dan muncul hanya di bawah Adrian. "Saya punya terfokus," katanya. "Kaki saya adalah begitu lama, jadi aku meletakkan satu kaki di dinding di kedua sisi sumur dan mengangkat diri." Dengan tingkat air tepat di bawah hidung, Lilly kemudian diperkuat keponakannya 100-pound, yang gemetar dalam pakaian perendaman.Dengan satu tangan, Dia menyambar kabelnya bahwa Bapa Adrian menjuntai dari atas dan diikat di sekitar pinggang Adrian. "Aku mendorongnya dan berpegangan pada dengan kaki sementara mereka menarik," kata Lilly. "Entah bagaimana mereka mendapatkan dia keluar. Saya percaya Tuhan adalah dengan kami hari itu."Lilly dirinya ditarik keluar seperti tim penyelamatan tiba. "Dalam 20 tahun saya menjadi seorang paramedis, kita tidak pernah punya untuk menyelamatkan seorang anak dari sumur," kata Anson County EMS supervisor Linda Yow, menambahkan, "Saya kagum bahwa gadis muda ini telah benar-benar tidak ada perhatian terhadap keselamatan dirinya sendiri."Adrian dan Lilly dibawa ke rumah sakit, mana ia adalah diselimuti dengan paket panas untuk menangkal hipotermia dan dia diperlakukan untuk memar dan luka. County pekerja disegel sumur untuk baik beberapa hari kemudian.Minggu berikutnya, Crump melemparkan sebuah pesta kejutan untuk menghormati remaja lembut hati, yang di masa lalu telah menyatakan takut bahkan naik penjinak di Taman Hiburan terdekat."Saya pikir, Tuhan, jika bayi saya telah tenggelam, jika ia belum mampu berpegang pada..." Crump mengatakan. "Saya tidak bisa terima Lykesia cukup." Sekarang bekerja di pusat penitipan anak, Lilly berharap beasiswa untuk menghadiri University of North Carolina, dimana ia ingin belajar forensik. "Dia lebih serius dan bertanggung jawab sekarang," mengamati Crump. "Saya tidak berpikir dia tahu dia punya itu padanya."Lilly dan Adrian telah unik dekat sejak resue."Ia mengingatkan saya sepanjang waktu," katanya sayang. "Dia akan berkata, 'Terima kasih, bibi, yang menyelamatkan saya.' Dan ia akan memelukku. Hanya keluar dari biru."Atau", dia menambahkan dengan tertawa, "ketika ia ingin sesuatu."