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Through life, many significant events will come about that people have to deal with. In February of last year, a significant event happened to me that has changed my life forever. It is the kind of significant event in a person�s life that they dread and learn from, the kind everyone thinks about everyday, it is called death.
Through life, people meet people who have great personalities; they help everyone, live life to the fullest, and they are the type of people everyone wants to be around. Those people teach many lessons in life and they are an inspiration to everyone.
On the night of February 1, of last year, my Auntie Carolyn, who is my dad�s sister, came to my house at about 7:30 PM. She was in her usual bright, beautiful mood. She always could lighten up a room and lift everyone�s spirits. She had just gone out to dinner with a long time friend, and decided to come by my house and say hi; also she was picking up some tax stuff since she�s was a CPA.
My aunt came in and she was talking to my parents. She was my favorite aunt, and my mom�s best friend, as well as my dads� sister. I was in my room doing homework for health class, so I didn�t really get to go out and visit with her. I went out for about a minute and hugged her and said hi. She was at my house for about twenty minutes and decided she better go home and let her dog out, since he had been in all day. She got in her car and that would be the last time I would ever see her. My parents talked to her for about ten minutes and then she decided to go.
On her way home that night, she was going around the GAP curve by Airways golf course, which is in Fresno, California. At about 8:12 PM she was coming to the end of the curve and she was dead before she even knew what hit her. A drunk driver had passed out and jumped the median, hitting her head-on and killing her instantly. He was going at least sixty-five miles per hour, and she was going fifty-five miles an hour, when they hit. There was a hundred and twenty mile an hour collision between the two cars, and there was no breaking. That is equivalent to jumping from a twelve story building headfirst.
Her seat went down into the floor; she broke both ankles, and one of her wrists, as well as about four fingers that were jammed into the steering wheel. The steering wheel and air bag flew forward and crushed all of her organs. Glass from the windshield hit her body and cut her. Her face was crushed by the airbag and many of the bones were broken. She hit the sun visor and it peeled the skin back on the top of her head. (I know it sounds brutal, but it�s the truth.)
I was at school the next day, in health class making my collage, and I got a call from the office to report there immediately. I did, and when they gave me an off campus pass that said �Family Emergency�, my aunt was the last person I thought of. My mom came and picked me up and told me what had happened. The news was total shock to me; I didn�t know what to do. I think it was the worst news I have ever heard, I couldn�t believe it. The thing that made me really mad, was that the guy that killed her wasn�t hurt at all. He had lived! The good thing though, was he was in jail.
It has been one year since she was killed, and I think about her everyday. I still can�t believe that it happened to her, I learned so much from her about life. She has a granddaughter now who was born two months after she was killed, and she also has a grandson that was born in October. Her death has changed my life forever and I will never forget her. The sentencing is March 8, and all of her family and friends will be there, to make sure the guy who killed her is put in jail for a long time. I will be there and I hope that he has to pay for his consequence.