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It was the meltdown of all meltdowns. The kind where words and heaving sobs are impossible to distinguish.
That’s how Scout Bassett remembers it. Even after 17 years, the details of that day in 2003 remain firmly etched in her mind. Bassett, then 14, was attending a Paralympic-style track meet in Orlando, Florida. She’d never set foot on a track, and here she was about to compete in her first race with a brand new prosthetic running leg — in a tank top and shorts.