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Stupid Drunk Drivers
My friend ------ was one of the sweetest people you could ever hope to meet. Smart and sassy, friendly to just about everyone. She was very forgiving. I didn't even get to know her for a full year before she was murdered. Many of you would call it an accident but it wasn't. A woman, a teacher no less, got behind the wheel of her even though she was drunk. My friend was sixteen years old at the time. She was hit by an SUV while riding her bike home from the grocery store to get eggs for her sister to bake a cake on Sunday, April 13, 2003. She flew 70 feet and recieved severe road rash. Her spine was broken in three places, her hip was shattered, her skull was smashed. When she got to the hospital they airvacced her to Las Vegas. The doctors induced coma to reduce swelling on her brain, regardless the swelling continued and her organs failed. She died at 2 in the afternoon on Monday, April 14, 2003. Had she survived she would have been a vegetable. I never got to see her again. The last time I had seen her she had been angry with me. I was 14 years old. It has been nearly one year and to think about it still hurts. The woman who murdered her should have been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence but she wasn't. That woman got off scot-free and everyday I have to live with the loss of the best friend I have ever had. She died 32 days before her 17th birthday. She never got her drivers permit or her license. She never got to see the end of her freshman year. She never went to prom or grew up and got married. She never had children or became a grandmother. She never got to be the writer she wanted so badly to be. She was an earth angel and one foolish woman snatched her away from a world where so few got to experience her light. But I know that the ones who did will never forget. Visit my link to itsnotanaccident.com and get the contracts and read the poems. Don't be the one to snatch away the next earth angel from this world, be the one to prevent it. God bless and good luck.
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