Eulogy For Emily

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Emily and her mother were on their way to Storybrooke, Maine. Out of nowhere, a deer appeared in the middle of the road which caused her mother to swerve and crash into a tree. Emily’s vision became dizzy and then everything went black. Emily woke up to the sound of hospital machines and a faint show playing in the background. As she was waiting for her vision to finally come back she tried sitting up and instead screamed from the huge pain coming from her leg. As she yelled someone from the corner rushed over to her to try to get her to relax. At first Emily didn’t realize who it was, and then once she was relaxed again, she realized that the person was her Aunt Michelle.
“Shhh calm down everything’s going to be okay just calm down” soothed
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After it was injected Emily fell back into the pillow and rested her eyes. She could hear her aunt and the nurses talking about how she can be released soon now that she is awake, and that they just had to wait a few more minutes for the doctor. When the doctor arrived, Emily was still resting and he talked to her aunt and discussed a time for her to be released. When Emily was up her aunt helped her to get off the bed and walk out of the little room and down to her car. As her aunt was helping her into the car, Emily asked if she could ask her aunt about what happened. Her aunt said that she could ask her anything. Before they got to her aunt’s house Emily had learned that she had been in the hospital for a few weeks, that her mother was no longer alive, and that she would be able to have full use of her leg back in a week. Also that her father had called because he heard about what had happened. When Emily heard this she was shocked. As a baby, her father had left her and her mother and went away. She never knew anything about her father or what he looked like. All she knew was that he had caused her mother a lot of pain and that he wasn’t a good

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