The reason why I have done this website was in honor of Emily. Emily was so wonderful to me that this website was my thank you to her for all the years she stood behind me threw everything. I only have a few memories I can actually remember of Emily very well. Sometimes when we share a moment with somebody, sometimes it gets lost inside us but it never really leaves us, we just brush it aside cause in our minds none of us will die til we get really really old. Most of my memories of Emily have ended up that way cause I never dreamt in a million years that she would be gone so soon. I miss her so much that no words can describe how much pain and sorrow I have went threw when I heard the news that she left us. It is true, kids around my age think they will never die and when of us do, it hits really close to home. Some of us brush it off like that will never happen to me; it will happen if those who think that way don't grow up and realize that life is so much important that each of us need to value each and every single breath we take. It can be stolen from us within a second and we can't get that second back most of the time. I will share the memories I have of Emily, the ones I haven't wrote about on the front page. I remember in art class when we had to do a watercolor painting, I was doing a Brandon Lee portrait and Emily was working on Leonardo DiCaprio cause she loved Titanic when it came out. This was the fall of 1998. She couldn't get him just right so Emily had her mom to help her. She put him in the art show and if I remember right, she won an award for the painting. But at the award show, my mom and me showed up and Emily and her mother holding her baby brother was standing in the classroom. When Emily seen us approach, she ran up to me and told her mom, "Mom I want you to meet my best friend Chrissy." That is one of my favorite memories I have of Emily to this day. That night Emily and me discovered that my mom and her mom were really good friends in high school. Small world. Also when we was sitting in art class doing a project, we was talking about our fathers and we found out that they both do the same thing; both are in the auto repair business and self employed. Later on that night, I called my dad to ask him if he knew Emily's dad and he did. Our fathers were also friends. Emily and I thought that was so neat that both of our parents were friends and here we became friends without knowing that. I remember we had an English class together and we sat across from each other. We had to do a vocabulary sheet and we would do them together so we could finish them faster and talk until class ended. In our document processing class, we had rolling chairs and every time Mrs. Lewis would step out of the room, we had one of our famous roller derbys. We also had a great time with that. Always laughing like little children at an amusement park. I remember she always wore her blue Adidas jacket everyday to school, a simple shirt, blue jeans and boots. I hardly remember a day that she let her hair hang down. It was usually up in a ponytail that was flipped into a bun so her hair wouldn't bother her. Shehardly wore makeup and if she did, very lightly. Emily was never the girl to dress very fancy. Emily was very down to earth and simple; that's what made us such good friends. We never did really like the girly girl stuff. We were just simple girls that loved to laugh and tell jokes. I remember when the movie "The Mummy" came out, Emily seen it and when she came to school, she was telling all of us she hated the flesh eating bugs in the movie cause they gave her the creeps. In our school newspaper in the gossip column, we had put in "Hey E.K, have you been bugged lately". She thought that was funny. I still have that newspaper with that in there. I can still seeing her walking up the sidewalk after school as I am walking down it, giving me a big hug and calling each other "sissy". I miss those moments so much. I would give anything just to have one more day with Emily so I can tell her thank you for being there for me and making me laugh. Here comes the hard part for me to write about. It's been a while since I talked to Emily before she died and now I can't remember how she talked or laughed and that drives me crazy. It's like that part of me was taken from me and I so desperately want that back. I can't remember everything Emily liked but I remember she loved her horses. That is all she talked about. I wish I could go back in time and remember everything again cause that kills me that I can't remember. It feels like that part of me was erased. I am glad I have Casie and Nichole to talk to cause they share their memories of Emily with me and I can remember her better. It slowly comes back to me when Casie and Nichole are talking to me but it still seems like something is trying to stop me from remembering. I keep asking myself why I can't remember but then I keep telling myself, don't beat yourself up on that, you better be thankful you got the memories you remember. I thank God everyday that I have known Emily. I also read on memorials that their loved one was a great person and such, I never had the pleasure of knowing their loved one but I did have the pleasure to know Emily. Everything that I have said and will say about her is the god's honest truth. She was and still is a great person. Emily would help anybody who asked for her help and those who didn't. If she felt that somebody needed her, she would be there with no questions asked and would never complain about being there. Emily always lit up the room with her joy, beauty and laughter. She stood out more than others and she never even tried. Emily grabbed your attention and never did you feel bored around her. Always something new and fun. Emily was so amazing and that's why it was so hard to lose her. I hope and pray to God that I have the same qualities Emily had. I believe she has made me a better person since I have known her and she has played such a great role in my life that I will never ever in my life forget her. She has left a big impression in my life and on my heart to stay forever. If you know somebody who reminds you of Emily and you would be so lost without him or her, cherish every second you have with them; you never know when your time with him or her will end. I thought I had forever with Emily and apparently God needed her home earlier than what all of us expected. If I knew what little time I had with Emily, I would have hugged her more, laughed more with her, shared more things with her, just lived more life with her. I wish I was there with her when she died so I could shield her from pain and everything. If you know somebody that is wonderful just like Emily is, please don't let them go threw what Emily went threw. Please DONT DRINK AND DRIVE! It's a horrible thing to do and look what could come out of the outcome. We lost Emily and still we grief for her every since second of our lives. I don't understand people who think it's alright to drink and drive. What would you accomplish? Nothing. You don't earn respect for it. You don't get a pat on the back for it. There are only two things that can be accomplished from drinking and driving: injuries or death. Do you want either of those two? I don't think you do. Who in their right minds would? Drinking and Driving causes so much pain and heartache so why do it? If you are drunk, be the bigger person and call somebody to drive for you. A sober driver. I have seen people who call another drunk driver. That is just a stupid, immoral than to do. Please make the right decision and never ever drink and drive. You could save a life, possibly even your own life. Which choice will you chose? I hope the right one so nobody else has to suffer. Think of Emily, her family and friends and how we had to suffer from somebody's decision to drink and drive. God has her now in Heaven but we would love to have her back here with us again. I encourage you all do to the right thing and I promise, you will not go unearned. It might not be with diamonds and gold but yet the most precious thing in life that is worth so much more than anything than money can buy and that is your life and the preicous lives of the innocent people you could have endangered. BE SOMEBODY'S ANGEL AND CALL FOR A SAFE RIDE HOME.

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