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(my 10 minutes of writing and writing piece.)
The unbearable burdens of Ella-May Todd
Chapter 1:
I think that everyone in this world breaks at some point. You're melting point. You can't bear the burdens of life anymore but then somehow we do it. How? You ask yourself. After that loss how can I try again. This is what I asked myself the day my daughter Natalie passed away. Sixteen and beautiful she had her entire life ahead of her.
I watched as they lowered my baby girl. My only family other than my old crazy mother. I watched as they buried my ray of sunshine my best friend, my everything. The salty tears raced down my cheeks and I hiccupped. Her casket slowly disappearing into the soil I laid lilies on her grave. a grave that a sixteen year old should not have.
I had lost everything in my life, when my daughter Natalie Todd was born I couldn't be more joyed. I had lost my father recently due to colon cancer, a year after that my husband went missing in Albania on a business trip, just as I realized I had fell pregnant with our first and only child. They Never found my husband Rodney, I fear they have stopped searching. I named my bouncing blue eyed girl Natalie Renee Todd. We did everything together, until the night I decided she was responsible enough to do something on her own. leaving her death not only an unbearable grief to me but also my responsibility. It was all my fault. I had lost my only ray of happiness in this twister of life, and it was all my fault.
It was august 2nd. 2 days before school was in session. she had just received her license and begged to use the car for one night on the town with her friends. I agreed. Stupid me. Stupid mother. It was 5:00 and she was ready to leave, but I wasn't quite ready to let her go yet I gave her the keys, brushed her curly golden hair aside and kissed her cheek. "Promise me you'll be careful?" "Mom, aren't I always?" "buckle up, and don't drive to fast." "mom, ok." Natalie said with a sweet giggle. "Natalie Todd I'm serious!" I smiled and yelled "You're butt better be back here by 10!" only joking but still serious all the same. watched her pull out of the driveway and couldn't help but think my baby girl was finally growing up.
I pulled a Sherlock mystery from the bookshelf and sat in my favorite recliner two hours into the book with my cup of cappuccino I got a call that made me go icy. *ring ring* "hello?" "Ms.Todd I'm afraid there has been a drive by shooting on main street...I don't know how to say this but...your daughter is deceased please come identify the body." I stopped my breathing my, heart got caught in my throat I was burning slowly burning someone please help. I don't know how my brain processed anything at that moment, but I knew I Ella-May Todd would go to the ends of this earth to find my daughters murder. I. Would. Not. Carry. This. Burden.
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