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A few months ago, pulling out of a motel parking lot, I drove my car off a steep embankment and ended up at the bottom of a ravine bleeding profusely, my arm mangled so badly it will never completely heal, and my brain already beginning to swell from the severe concussion. It was early in the morning, and if another driver hadn't seen me drive off the road and called 911 within seconds of the crash, I would have died there sometime in the next hour. It was a close thing as it was, with the paramedics arriving in a matter of minutes.
I was trying to reset the trip odometer, my arm got stuck in the wheel and I panicked. This would have been a colossally stupid way to die, wouldn't it?
Had I died, I'd have left behind four people who would have been strongly affected in some way. Not many, is it? Yet to those people, it would have been a major loss.
She shouldn't have been talking on her phone or overdriving the conditions, but yes, I still have sympathy for her. Such stupidity doesn't deserve death, and the people who love her don't deserve the grief they will be suffering.
Gilda
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