Deserialize xml special characters in the code - c#

I want to deserialize special characters. This is the sample XML tag:
<Address1>125*1(&()*)1798</Address1>
How can I do that using XmlSerializer? I want to do this in the code in c# rather than changing the contents of the Xml because the file is being uploaded by the user. I can't ask the user to fix the contents in the XML. I want to rather handle this in C# code.
Any help is appreciated.

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