Seventeen-year-old Kristen and fifteen-year-old sister Tasha left the house to the usual, “Have a great day girls” from mom. Closing the front door behind them, almost in unison the girls answer “Thanks mom, you too.”
(Editor’s note: “Kristen” and “Tasha” are fictional sisters based on the author’s real-life experiences with two sets of family tragedies involving children killed in road crashes. The author’s story is fiction, but based on his too-real encounters with grieving families.)