Complex sentence: Her father suffered a terrible accident, and handicapped to the point of infantile retardation, but the thought of Elvis coming to town gives her the resolve to carry on despite this new of many misfortunate circumstances.
Split into simpler sentences: Her father suffered a terrible accident, and handicapped to the point of infantile retardation. But the thought of Elvis coming to town gives her the resolve to carry on despite this new of many misfortunate circumstances.