Ethereum pruning and account state trie

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Ethereum pruning and account state trie

I read that ethereum nodes can prune states older than 1024 blocks

https://dev.to/5chdn/the-ethereum-blockchain-size-will-not-exceed-1tb-anytime-soon-58a

My question is what if I made a transaction to my account a long time ago, and now all nodes have pruned the world state trie since then? (assuming no archival nodes exist, which are optional anyway). How do I receive the state of my account? Does each recent account state trie contain the state for ALL accounts in existence in ethereum?

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