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As the homecoming court began taking their shoes off, Deal said she was very surprised by the gesture and suddenly heard the crowd cheering her on.

\"I heard [them] saying my name and [then] I became Homecoming Queen,\" Deal said. “I was feeling much better.”

\"PHOTO:
Dawn Ford
PHOTO: Nataleigh Deal, 19, was crowned homecoming queen at at Strom Thurmond High School.
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Her classmates were determined to make her feel like a queen despite suffering a seizure.

“My first thoughts about walking across barefoot were, 'Of course, I'll do it!' Not only because my heels were hurting my feet, but mainly to make Nataleigh feel better,\" Lillian Mann, a fellow homecoming court candidate, said. \"Nataleigh is such a sweet person and ... watching her have her seizure made me want to do anything I could to help her feel like the queen she is.\"

\"PHOTO:
Crystal Lotz Hadden
PHOTO: Twelve homecoming court candidates who walked barefoot across a football field in South Carolina in solidarity with their classmate.
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Hadden told ABC News that she posted the story of the homecoming court's gesture for Nataleigh because it shows that \"we are all in this together,\" she said. “I wanted to share with the world, Look what we have here in our small town,\" Hadden said.

Nataleigh's mother, Dawn Ford, said her daughter has been dealing with seizures since 2014.

\"All her life, we have prayed for love, acceptance and total inclusion for Nataleigh. We are so blessed that she is so loved and included,\" Ford said. \"I knew she was loved by her peers, but had no idea the magnitude of how much until Friday night.”

Deal's sister, Carleigh Deal, also shared a moving post about the gesture on Facebook: \"How blessed we are to be in a community that loves our girl beyond what we could’ve ever comprehended before Friday night,\" she wrote. \"Complete love and inclusion in this world are both still VERY much alive and I pray every child, special needs or not, experiences and expresses them just the same.\"

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