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Amanda was three weeks
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She was a hard worker.
Between the time she finished high school and started college, she held two
or three jobs at a time. At one point she worked two full-time jobs.
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Amanda did not go to college until
January, so she was a semester behind. To catch up, she took a class during
the summer.
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The day she died, July 6, 2006, I worked
late. She called me as I was leaving and asked what the best
route to class was. We talked for just a minute because she
needed to finish getting ready and get out the door.
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Our paths should have
crossed in only 10 minutes, but nothing. I tried to call her cell phone to
find out where she was. I was afraid she was driving too fast.
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As I came around a curve
in the road, I could see her truck sitting sideways in the road. There were
a few other vehicles there as well. When I got there, she lay on the side of
the road, a man over her. He said she was conscious when he got there, but
when I took her hand and talked, she did not respond.
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When the fire department
arrived, I begged them to call the helicopter. In my mind I knew she was
already gone, but my heart would not listen.
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At the hospital we found
out she had been ejected from her truck. She was dead on arrival.
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Amanda was a very strong
willed, self-reliant individual. Just days before the accident she told me
she did not care how many tickets she got for not wearing her seatbelt; she
would pay them all. The deputy sheriff at the scene removed a seatbelt
ticket from her truck. |
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Please Click-It-4-Life!!! |
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