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On the evening of May 21, unimaginable tragedy struck Steven & Mary Beth Chapman when their 5-year-old daughter Maria Sue was accidentally killed by an SUV driven by their 17-year-old son, Will Franklin,

"At first you don't even know if you can breathe. You don't know if you are going to survive the grief and the deep, deep, deep sadness," says Grammy-winning Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman. "You just want to lay down and die."

Coping with the pain of his daughter's death and the anguish of his son who was at the wheel, Chapman said his faith has been tested,

"Every lyric I've ever written has been tested beyond what I ever imagined."

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