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Jessica McClure Morales made headlines across the world when she fell into a well when she was 18 months old
Morales was heroically rescued after nearly 60 hours spent in a 22-foot-deep well
She has since reflected on the incident and told PEOPLE that her "life is a miracle"
Jessica McClure Morales became one of the most well-known children in the 1980s when she was saved from a deep well after 58 hours.
When she was just 18 months old, she fell 22 feet down a well in her aunt's backyard in Midland, Texas, on Oct. 14, 1987. Nearly 60 hours after she fell in, Morales was pulled out and safely rescued.
The story was covered across the country both during and after the rescue and led to the 1989 television movie adaptation, Everybody’s Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure.