Hello, Kossacks...
This will be a relatively short one, 'cos I don't want to get on a downer at the beginning of a long weekend, but I really wanted to ask your help in spreading the word for the upcoming holiday...or any other time, really!
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Exactly fourteen years and six months ago, this coming Fourth of July, every parent's nightmare came true for us. Our beloved 19 year old daughter was killed in a single-vehicle drunk driving accident. She was a passenger in the front seat.
She was 5 months away from her 20th birthday, six months away from her wedding to the father of her two children (who were not in the car with her, thank all that is holy...)
PLEASE have a plan for staying off the roads if you or your friends are impaired!
Call a cab.
Arrange a designated driver.
Put up a tent in the backyard, and let friends crash on the air mattress.
Let them crash on the couch inside. Or on the floor. Or in the tub!
But please take keys on arrival, and don't let anyone drive intoxicated...please.
Please don't be part of making any other parent get that dreaded phone call, and joining our sad club, to which nobody wants to belong.
OH! PS: And please don't do stupid shit with fireworks!
Thanks.My beloved oldest daughter, Emmy