A Life Changing Accident
I was twelve years old enjoying my summer after fifth grade. My two cousins, Blake and Lacy, my aunt’s boyfriend, Chris, and his daughter, Emily, and I hopped in Chris’s old ford truck. All of us kids had been bulldozing down trees in the forest behind the house all day and decided that we wanted to build a tree house. We were headed to town to buy supplies for the tree house. As we were all getting in the truck there was no room in the front for all of us, so Blake and I jumped in the back bed of the truck, not knowing this would be a choice that would change our lives, and would be remembered forever.
After getting supplies in town we were driving home on the back road. This was past Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, between Sandpoint and Athol. We were on a dusty, gravel road with trees on both sides of the road with miles of forest behind them. It was a beautiful sunny day and Blake and I were laughing so hard bouncing around in the back. We were having......
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