how you get the girl - matt sturniolo

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save your life and someone else's

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december 13, 2023

@isadoraalangford pictured is one of my favorite people. pictured is one of my mentors. pictured is one of my very best friends. pictured is someone i can call at 2 am and will answer by the 3rd ring. pictured is someone who trusted me enough to let me open for one of the biggest tours ever. pictured is taylor swift. happy #tayday i love you so so big

@user1 isadora and taylor...forever iconic

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january 2, 2024

@isadoraalangford mom sent me this picture today. what i would do to hug you, hear your laugh, see you smile. life isn't fair. it feels so much more than 15 years and less than a day. i wish i remembered more of your voice, and your stories, and your advice, and everything you had to offer. i miss you so much daddy.

my dad died doing right by others. he got a call at 8:53 on January 1st, 2008. my parents and my brother had all stayed home and celebrated the new years. it was the first time my brother and i actually stayed up until 12. it was a friend of his, saying he was still too drunk to drive himself home and asked for a ride home. being the person he was, he got up, made coffee, said goodbye to my mom and my brother and i, and left. he was going to bring donuts home. he picked up his friend and started their way to his house. about 10 minutes from his friends' house, another driver who was intoxicated slammed into the front of my dad's car. all three were rushed to the hospital, and my mom took us to the hospital. he was in surgery when we got there. they said words no five-year-old would know. i remember hating not knowing what they were talking about. when he got out of surgery, my mom told us he was just sleeping. but my mom usually didn't cry when someone was sleeping. while my mom was talking to the doctors with my brother, i sat in the waiting room. another girl and her mother walked in the waiting room. she looked my age, with the same holiday edition barbie i had gotten for christmas that year. they walked into the room where the police were. i didn't know it at the time, but they were the family of the man who hit my dad. he passed away at 1:58 on January 2nd, 2008. both the man who hit my dad and his friend healed from their injuries. they came to his funeral. my mom hugged my dads friend and his wife. then she walked over to the other man and his family. and she hugged him. he was in a wheelchair and had a blue cast on his arm. i wondered for so long why she hugged him. he killed her husband. but she was doing what my dad would do. my dad would be deveasted, but he would still choose kindness. he would do right by others.

my mom told me the full story about how he died when i got my license. please, please, do not drive drunk. call a car, call a friend, call your dad. save your life and save someone elses.

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ok, i really like this chapter. this doesn't go over any plot, but i feel like this is very beneficial. i also needed to get through december of 2023 and start 2024 (for plot reasons) because 7 started in mid january.

also, please listen to what is said about drunk driving. it kills too many every year and this is 10000% preventable.