Shot 4 times while pregnant, mom sees daughter graduate 18 years later
Rose Smith, who was shot four times while three months pregnant in 2007, recently celebrated her daughter Miracle's high school graduation. Despite doctors' initial grim prognosis for both mother and child, both survived and are now looking toward the daughter's future in nursing.
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On a May afternoon in 2007, Rose Smith was on her way home from the grocery store when gunfire suddenly erupted. She had been planning to prepare her signature turkey dish for Memorial Day weekend, but before she could reach her front door, Smith had been shot four times.One bullet struck her jaw, two hit her left arm and another entered her spine. As she collapsed on her doorstep, Smith was fighting for her life, and for the life of a baby she was carrying.‘Don’t let me die’Smith was three months pregnant, although most of her family did not know she was expecting. As she lay injured, she began praying.“At that moment, everything flashed in front of me,” Smith told PEOPLE. “I just started pleading to God, praying, ‘Don’t let me die. Don’t let me die.
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