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Girl sacrifices self to protect her brother.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
Many people say they would "give their right arm" to help another, but a girl from California's San Gabriel Valley recently gave her left arm to save her little brother.
On July 15, Arianna Masten, a 10-year-old girl from West Covina, a Los Angeles suburb, was riding in a van driven by her grandmother near Independence, California, in the Lake Tahoe region. The Masten family was traveling in two vehicles from West Covina to Nevada to spend the weekend with Arianna's father. Arianna's grandmother swerved suddenly and lost control of the van, causing it to flip onto the passenger side and slide about 200 feet.
Arianna said that when the van started to flip over, her two-year-old brother Matthew tried to get out of his car seat. Feeling instinctively protective of him, she unbuckled her seat belt and threw her arms over her little brother to protect him from the crash.
"We fell back and there were all kinds of sparks," Arianna told the Pasadena Star-News. "I tried to put him somewhere where he doesn't get burnt or nothing."
Matthew was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where he was treated ...
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