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- [Old Woman] She just loved people.

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(light music)

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She made friends easy.

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And she had a lot of friends.

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Brenden was a good student.

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She loved to learn.

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She was really looking
forward to going to college.

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And I never will forget,

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(chuckles)

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when she had been looking,

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she had been watching the mail close

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for her acceptance letter

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to see if she got into JNU.

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She went to the mailbox that day

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and she came on back.

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She came through that door

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and she said, "yes, yes, yes!"

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She opened up the envelope you know,

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and she looked and she read it she said

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I could see in her she said
"yes, yes, yes!", she said.

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(cries, laughs)

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It was a beautiful January day.

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The sky was so pretty and blue

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and the sun was bright.

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And it was just a lovely day.

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And that particular day,

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she didn't have to be
to school till 11:00.

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She sat there,

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she ate a bowl of cereal,

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and she changed clothes three times

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before she left.

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When she got in the truck,

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she put a seatbelt on.

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When she sit in a vehicle,

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if she was gonna ride or if

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she was gonna drive she always

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put a seatbelt on.

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Anyway that morning the police

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scanner was on and I just,

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in the back of my mind I heard him

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say that there had been a bad accident

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on route 130.

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And I get on down there,

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and there's a fireman in the road

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directing traffic and I can see

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a truck and I could see the bumper.

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And I saw the sticker.

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(whimpering)

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And I knew it was that truck.

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So I pulled over to the side of the road,

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and I asked that fireman I said,

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"The little girl driving that truck,

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I said is she hurt bad?"

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He said, "Are you kidding doll?"

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I said, "Yes, I'm her mother."

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And by that time,

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two rescue squad workers,

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one got on one side of me

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and one got right on the other side.

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And I said, "The little girl driving

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that truck I said is she hurt bad?"

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The woman said, "Yes, ma'am".

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I said, "Is she dead"?

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She said, "Yes, ma'am".

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(sobbing heavily)