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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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Dalam Nama Cinta Setibanya di rumah setelah dia pekerjaan paruh waktu di Burger King, Lykesia Lilly merencanakan untuk menembak beberapa rintangan. Itu sore pada hari Minggu. Mungkin dia bahkan akan bermain beberapa satu-satu dengan keponakan kecilnya Adrian sebelum makan malam. Tapi ketika Lilly, 18, ​​meminta kakaknya di mana anak itu, pertanyaan kasual nya bertemu dengan keprihatinan. "Saya berada di luar mencari dia karena ayahnya dan saya menyadari bahwa kami tidak melihatnya dalam beberapa saat," kenang ibu Adrian, Stephanie Crump, 29, seorang agen asuransi. "Dia seharusnya bermain di sebuah rumah di jalan, tetapi ketika kita dipanggil, dia tidak ada." Dalam komunitas mereka kecil, pedesaan Burnsville, North Carolina (pop. 1644), anak-anak masih menjalankan bebas dari halaman ke yard, muncul dan keluar dari rumah bata berlantai satu dengan rumput pohon. Bahkan lalu lintas menimbulkan sedikit ancaman. Pusat dusun terdiri dari satu cahaya hati-hati berkedip dan dua toko. Namun pada sore yang cerah Mei, enam-tahun-tua Adrian Clark tampaknya memiliki hanya menghilang. Banyak dari keluarga dekat dan besarnya bergabung dalam pencarian hysterial, mencari lingkungan dan biasa bermain bintik-bintik yang kelas pertama. Akhirnya, mereka mendengar jauh-off tangisan yang datang dari bawah tumpukan batu ditumpuk di halaman neneknya. "Kami bisa mendengarnya, tapi kita tidak bisa melihatnya," kenang Lilly. "Rasanya seperti dia tak terlihat." Setelah suaranya, mereka tersandung pada sebuah ditinggalkan juga ditutupi dengan lansekap shale yang telah dilupakan selama bertahun-tahun. Ada, turun gelap poros, sempit, mereka melihat sosok him─a kecil 15 kaki di bawah, yang tergantung di atas air. Dari bibir sumur, keluarga mencoba untuk meyakinkan anak. Tapi mereka memiliki o tahu bagaimana untuk mendapatkan dia keluar. Baik itu hanya 14 inci di bagian atas, "ukuran ember lima galon," kata Crump. "Kami menyadari tidak ada orang dewasa bisa muat melalui itu." Mereka menurunkan kabel ekstensi oranye panjang, tapi Adrian─who'd menyelinap ke dalam kegelapan, pembekuan air tiga kali oleh now─was terlalu takut untuk melepaskan dinding untuk membungkus jalur kehidupan sekitar dirinya. Berjuang histeria, Crump membuat dua panggilan ke 911. satu mencapai departemen kebakaran sukarela lokal, dan yang lainnya, yang Anson County EMS operator, 13 mil jauhnya. Sirene meraung di seluruh kota, mengingatkan relawan, tapi Crump masih khawatir bahwa Adrian akan kehilangan cengkeramannya sebelum mereka sampai di sana. Saat itulah Lilly memutuskan dia harus pergi down─despite ketidakmampuannya untuk berenang. "Semua orang panik dan menangis, dan aku tahu aku tidak bisa menunggu lebih lama lagi," kenangnya. "Saya hanya harus mendapatkan keponakan saya." Crump dan ayah Adrian, Dale Clark, menurunkan Lilly bawah poros sejauh yang mereka bisa, lalu melepaskannya. Juga mendapat bagian yang lebih luas dari jalan ke bawah, dan dia meluncur melewati keponakannya dan ke dalam air di bawah ini. Untungnya, Lilly secara naluriah mendorong dari bawah, 12 kaki di bawah air, dan muncul hanya di bawah Adrian. "Aku punya fokus," katanya. "Kaki saya begitu lama, jadi aku meletakkan satu kaki di dinding di kedua sisi baik dan diadakan diri." Dengan tingkat air hanya di bawah hidungnya, Lilly kemudian didukung keponakannya 100-pound, yang gemetar dalam bukunya merendam pakaian. dengan satu tangan, dia meraih kabel bahwa ayah Adrian menggantung dari atas dan mengikatnya di pinggang Adrian. "Saya mendorong dia dan memegang dengan kaki saya sementara mereka menarik," kata Lilly. "Entah bagaimana mereka mendapat dia keluar. Saya percaya Tuhan bersama kami hari itu. " Lilly dirinya ditarik keluar hanya sebagai tim penyelamat tiba. "Dalam 20 tahun saya sudah menjadi paramedis, kami tidak pernah harus menyelamatkan seorang anak dari sumur," kata Anson County EMS atasan Linda Yow, menambahkan, "Saya kagum bahwa gadis muda ini benar-benar tidak perhatian untuk keselamatannya sendiri. " Kedua Adrian dan Lilly dibawa ke rumah sakit, di mana ia diselimuti dengan paket panas untuk menangkal hipotermia dan dia dirawat karena memar dan cedera. County pekerja disegel dengan baik untuk yang baik beberapa hari kemudian. Minggu berikutnya, Crump melemparkan pesta kejutan untuk menghormati lembut hati remaja, yang di masa lalu telah menyatakan takut bahkan penjinak wahana di taman hiburan di dekatnya. "Saya pikir , Tuhan, jika bayi saya telah tenggelam, jika ia tidak mampu mempertahankan ... "kata Crump. "Saya tidak bisa terima Lykesia cukup." Sekarang bekerja di sebuah pusat penitipan, Lilly berharap untuk beasiswa untuk kuliah di Universitas North Carolina, di mana dia ingin belajar forensik. "Dia lebih serius dan bertanggung jawab sekarang," mengamati Crump. "Saya tidak berpikir dia tahu dia punya itu dalam dirinya." Lilly dan Adrian telah unik dekat sejak resue itu. "Dia mengingatkan saya sepanjang waktu," katanya sayang. "Dia akan mengatakan, 'Terima kasih, Bibi, untuk menyelamatkan saya." Dan dia akan memelukku. Hanya keluar dari biru. "Atau", tambahnya sambil tertawa, "ketika ia menginginkan sesuatu."