Nearly 16 years ago, a baby girl survived an explosion when her impoverished birth parents detonated a bomb inside their home in Vietnam. She lived but lost her legs. After being adopted by a loving family from the United States, Haven Faith Shepherd, an inspiring double-amputee swimming star in the making, has found ways to own her identity as a differently-abled person. As an advocate and a hopeful paralympic swimmer, Haven takes joy and pride in being an amputee. “It is what makes me… me,” she said in her story she submitted to Love What Matters. “I was supposed to die that night, and I almost did. I was found 30 feet away from the destroyed, flaming hut, mangled and burned with shrapnel in my head and tiny, little body. I know this from the scars I still have today.” Haven, born Do Thi Thuy Phuong, was just 16 months old when …