{"id":1441,"date":"2023-07-26T13:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2023-07-26T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T13:30:02","slug":"teenage-girl-lost-her-leg-to-a-shark-a-year-later-she-reveals-a-secret-she-has-been-keeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl lost her leg to a shark \u2013 a year later she reveals a secret she has been keeping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last June, Addison Bethea was enjoying her last summer before her senior year of high school, when scalloping in shallow waters off the coast of Florida with her brother, she was bitten by a\u00a0shark<\/a>\u00a0that took her leg.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One year later, the resilient 18-year-old walked the homecoming field at graduation with her prosthetic leg, and later she returned to the same spot she was attacked and went for a swim.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Capping off a senior year marked by trauma and several successes, the new graduate shared some unexpected and exciting news with her followers!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keep reading to learn more about this inspirational young lady!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In late June 2022, Addison Bethea and her half-brother Rhett Willingham anchored their little boat near a large grassy sandbank off the coast of Keaton Beach in northern Florida.<\/p>\n

The siblings were scalloping in the murky waters, about 6 feet deep, when Addison felt something tug her leg.<\/p>\n

Recounting that moment in the BBC documentary\u00a0Why Sharks Attack<\/em>, the young woman said she \u201cvividly\u201d remembers the details.<\/p>\n

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