There’s one girl here… I didn’t want to bring up. Her name was April May Harris. I’m not going to write a lot, because the memory hurts me so. April’s one of the key reasons I believe in God and an afterlife…
I knew April five years growing up on the weekends at my dad’s in the trailer park. We grew to love each other, as friends, and later, as more.
Her mother had to relocate for work, and took April with her (obviously) all the way to North Dakota. We stayed in touch (in an era without internet), but in 2004 we moved into the technical times. As a couple by distance, we’d grown incredibly close. In 2005 I received a message from her saying that her mom was going to pay for a ticket that would fly her back to New York so we could spend some much needed time together after 4 years.
December 22, 2005, she was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Only three days before she was to be coming to see me. 11 Days after I’d gotten the message from her. I didn’t hear from her for months, until her brother called me crying on the 31st of March, in disbelief that no one contacted me.
If anyone deserves a heaven, it’s April. She embodied innocence and perfection to me, and always will. And now, she’s basking in a land that was made for her. She will forever be missed. Forever.
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