r.i.p. in OD OG

i just got very sad news from my mother that yet another girl i was friends with thru el. school to high school is dead at age 21. sarah w. was our next door neighbor for most of my life and mom baby-sat her and her brother and sister. we had new years’ parties with her family. we used to spend weekends at their camp in happier days–the girls would bunk together. sarah gave me rides home from school. we rode bikes together. and now she is dead. the road was icy and there weren’t barrels along the side of the bridge and she slid off into the water. she had just dropped her 7 month old baby off at the baby-sitters. i get esp. sad when i think about her baby. but almost sadder is when i think about her best friend Heather who lived on the other side of her. they lived next door to each other forever, were best friends all through school and went to the same college. i cannot imagine how horrible it must be for her to lose someone who was that close. and i just keep remembering how one time sarah wore two right shoes to elementary school on accident one day and she noticed they felt weird but didn’t realize her mistake till her aunt who was a cafeteria lady pointed out she had two right shoes on. sarah replied “that’s why i’ve been walkin in circles all day.” it’s funny i should remember that now b/c i haven’t thought about that in years.