My name is Samuel Barton and by now of course I am over 

my tradgedy but when I was four years old I was the victim of

a boating accedent. You see I was out in the water with my

aunt and I was holding on to a ski rope, and stupidly I had

the rope wrapped around my right fingers except for my thumb

I was swimming a pretty far distance from the boat and all

of the sudden a boat came in between our boat and me, then the

rope got caught in the prop of the boat and the rope pulled my

fingers almost all of the way off. They were still barely hanging 

on and I hadn't lost them, but the doctors said that all of my

veins & legaments were too small and stretched out to sew back

together. Now all I have left is upto where my fingers used to be 

and there is just a nub. The doctors put a skin graph over the 

top of my hand from my lower stomach. Really I haven't had 

many problems with people making fun of me. I am hoping that 

one day there will be a way that I can eventually find a scientist 

who can find a way to put one persons skin onto another But 

really for now It's O.K.

     Really I don't have many problems with it. Besides being 

carefull not to hurt it. Most people find it confusing to find out 

I even write with my right hand. Sometimes my friends forget 

about it and I guess they're all that really matters!