Terry McCarty

‘I have never been able to identify the neighbour who saved me when I was six’: Terry McCarty in Spokane, Washington, in the US.Photograph: Margaret Albaugh/The Guardian (Photograph: Margaret Albaugh/The Guardian) When I was six years old, my entire body went up in flames. It was 1992, in my home town of Hawthorne, Nevada. My older brothers were out playing and I went to call them for dinner.

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