Too Pretty to Die
“I didn’t want to view Miranda’s lifeless corpse encased in a body bag as it was wheeled outside on a stretcher.
Long ago I’d decided it was far, far better to remember people as they were (i.e., alive and breathing). If you got a glimpse of them in death, you could never shake it from your mind.
Trust me on that.
And call me insensitive, but it felt even worse when the deceased was someone young with an interrupted life. It always left you to wonder what they could have become had they stuck ar...ound.
Though, most often, dying wasn’t a matter of choice.
Sometimes life derailed like a bad day at Amtrak, and there wasn’t much you could do except hang onto the handrails, grit your teeth, and ride it out.
I knew Miranda DuBois and I had never been tight, and maybe it shouldn’t have been so difficult for me to accept that she had chosen to check out of the Heartbeat Hotel way earlier than scheduled.
But it was.
I just couldn’t reconcile that a woman who’d braved her way through beauty pageants, debutante balls, sorority rush, and television news would end it all because she was no longer the prettiest girl in the room.MoreLess
Long ago I’d decided it was far, far better to remember people as they were (i.e., alive and breathing). If you got a glimpse of them in death, you could never shake it from your mind.
Trust me on that.
And call me insensitive, but it felt even worse when the deceased was someone young with an interrupted life. It always left you to wonder what they could have become had they stuck ar...ound.
Though, most often, dying wasn’t a matter of choice.
Sometimes life derailed like a bad day at Amtrak, and there wasn’t much you could do except hang onto the handrails, grit your teeth, and ride it out.
I knew Miranda DuBois and I had never been tight, and maybe it shouldn’t have been so difficult for me to accept that she had chosen to check out of the Heartbeat Hotel way earlier than scheduled.
But it was.
I just couldn’t reconcile that a woman who’d braved her way through beauty pageants, debutante balls, sorority rush, and television news would end it all because she was no longer the prettiest girl in the room.MoreLess
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