JustJason
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The good people always go before their time.
I met Penney not long after I started dating Kate, about 2 1/2 years ago. Penney was Kate's best friend of 7+ years. I met Mike about 8 months ago when Penney and Mike started dating. Kate and I would have them over every other week for dinner partys and good times.
Kate called me in tears yesterday afternoon.
Penney and Mike were killed in an motorcycle/automobile accident. Tragic irony prevailed. They were at a funeral for 1 of Mikes uncles, who passed before his time as well, of cancer. Mike's uncle was a biker. Penney and Mike were also both bikers. They, with many others, attended the funeral on bikes. They were on their way home to change clothes for a long benefit ride for cancer that was to happen later that afternoon, when they struck a truck at 11 am, on thursday morning, in Reading Massachuettes.
There were no witnesses, and police do not yet know how or what happened. The truck driver was not drunk or anything of the sort, and it was improbably bright out that morning with ton's of solar glare. It would give some sense of closeure to find fault on 1 party or the other. But it looks like it was just an accident. As of yet there are still no details in the news.
When Kate called me yesterday she had said that Penneys father had called her and told her what happened. Mr Richards had said in the conversation that he made a promise to call Kate and tell her what happened. I called Mr Richards this afternoon to express my most solemn coldonences. I had also asked him, that Kate had told me that you made a promise to call her, what did you mean by that.
Mr Richards told me that Michael had died on the scene. Penney was rushed to the hospital with the faintest of blood pressures. With her family at her side, she awoke for just a minute and told her parents that she loved them very much, and she said "please promise me you'll call katie and sarah (her other best friend) and tell them I love them to". She lost conciousness, went into cardiac arrest, and passed away. I held it back the most I could but I cried so much after I got off phone.
Penney and I
My Kate with her Penney
Penney with her Mike
It's tough, as i'm sure you all can imagine. The worst part about it, is that they were such good people. Penney would be 26 on Dec 3rd. She finished high school at 17, got her RN at 21. Tragic irony continues as she was a nurse in the oncology dept (cancer ward) for Childrens Hospical in Boston. She helped make the lives of cancer kids the best they could be every day. Penney was also the only child to her broken hearted parents.
Mike was 32 ,a hard working electrician, and was dreaming of leaving his company to start his own. Mike adored Penney, and they adored eachother as well.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est - Chilon
Speak well of the dead, or do not speak at all.
Please no assinine comments, we are all full well aware of the considerations when driving motorcycles.
Parents.... You always think you will go before your kids. But dumb luck can happen in both extremes of the good and the bad. If your thinking about calling your kids, but "putting it off until tommorow"... Don't wait, you never know when it is going to be anybodies time. Alot of parents are involved in their childrens life, no matter what age of the child, or adult. The only thing you'll never ever as a parent get a say in, is when your child passes.
I met Penney not long after I started dating Kate, about 2 1/2 years ago. Penney was Kate's best friend of 7+ years. I met Mike about 8 months ago when Penney and Mike started dating. Kate and I would have them over every other week for dinner partys and good times.
Kate called me in tears yesterday afternoon.
Penney and Mike were killed in an motorcycle/automobile accident. Tragic irony prevailed. They were at a funeral for 1 of Mikes uncles, who passed before his time as well, of cancer. Mike's uncle was a biker. Penney and Mike were also both bikers. They, with many others, attended the funeral on bikes. They were on their way home to change clothes for a long benefit ride for cancer that was to happen later that afternoon, when they struck a truck at 11 am, on thursday morning, in Reading Massachuettes.
There were no witnesses, and police do not yet know how or what happened. The truck driver was not drunk or anything of the sort, and it was improbably bright out that morning with ton's of solar glare. It would give some sense of closeure to find fault on 1 party or the other. But it looks like it was just an accident. As of yet there are still no details in the news.
When Kate called me yesterday she had said that Penneys father had called her and told her what happened. Mr Richards had said in the conversation that he made a promise to call Kate and tell her what happened. I called Mr Richards this afternoon to express my most solemn coldonences. I had also asked him, that Kate had told me that you made a promise to call her, what did you mean by that.
Mr Richards told me that Michael had died on the scene. Penney was rushed to the hospital with the faintest of blood pressures. With her family at her side, she awoke for just a minute and told her parents that she loved them very much, and she said "please promise me you'll call katie and sarah (her other best friend) and tell them I love them to". She lost conciousness, went into cardiac arrest, and passed away. I held it back the most I could but I cried so much after I got off phone.
Penney and I
My Kate with her Penney
Penney with her Mike
It's tough, as i'm sure you all can imagine. The worst part about it, is that they were such good people. Penney would be 26 on Dec 3rd. She finished high school at 17, got her RN at 21. Tragic irony continues as she was a nurse in the oncology dept (cancer ward) for Childrens Hospical in Boston. She helped make the lives of cancer kids the best they could be every day. Penney was also the only child to her broken hearted parents.
Mike was 32 ,a hard working electrician, and was dreaming of leaving his company to start his own. Mike adored Penney, and they adored eachother as well.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est - Chilon
Speak well of the dead, or do not speak at all.
Please no assinine comments, we are all full well aware of the considerations when driving motorcycles.
Parents.... You always think you will go before your kids. But dumb luck can happen in both extremes of the good and the bad. If your thinking about calling your kids, but "putting it off until tommorow"... Don't wait, you never know when it is going to be anybodies time. Alot of parents are involved in their childrens life, no matter what age of the child, or adult. The only thing you'll never ever as a parent get a say in, is when your child passes.
