In Memoriam
Rest in peace, Jody, my sweet little sister. On this day in 1994, she lost her life to a drunk driver twenty days before she’d have graduated from high school, and three weeks to the day before her eighteenth birthday.
As is my custom on May 4, I did not eat anything at all. In tribute to my sister, I fast every May 4. Some of my co-workers couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to eat lunch with them. I explained it, and some of them still didn’t grasp the weight of such a situation.
One more thing, while I’m thinking about it and I have your attention. If you drink and drive ever, I fucking hate you. It’s too bad drunk drivers kill other people. I’d have absolutely no objection if the only people killed by drunk drivers were themselves. Unfortunately, the reverse is true. Drunk drivers almost never get injured or killed in accidents they cause. And that is a fucking tragedy.