We all know that we are not guaranteed another day on this earth, but it is so heartbreaking when someone this young dies. A person familiar with the situation says that she may have inhaled cleaning products which caused her to go into pneumonia. She had been diagnosed with COPD and still continued to be a heavy smoker. She had cleaned her boyfriend’s camper that afternoon. To make things worse, she was such a kind-hearted soul.

She was a person of modest means and leaves behind a 13 year old daughter. I am sure that her mother will raise her daughter as if she were her daughter and not granddaughter. I was the same age when my mother died. This is such a hard age for kids to go through even if traumatic events like this do not enter into their lives. It is possible for an elderly person to raise a responsible adult. My father was 64 when my mother died and managed to raise a child to adulthood who did not get into trouble with the law or elicit drugs.

The older that I get the more that I admire my father. He was one heck of a man to raise a 13 year old daughter. My father was not demonstrative with his affection, but I knew that he loved me. He told me so in a lot of different ways by the things that he did and the things that he said though he infrequently told me that he loved me. I could see the hurt in his face when I was sick or upset over something that had happened in school. I loved my father and did not want to hurt him, which is why I stayed out of trouble. I did some mischievous things that I learned later in life that he knew about all the time, but I had worked hard for him not to find out because I thought that I would be in trouble.

Whenever I would win an award, or be given an opportunity because of my achievements he was proud, but would always say ” now Liney don’t you go to school tomorrow thinking that you are better than the other girls.” I hope that my friend’s daughter can have a good stable environment in her formative years.