I don't want to get all emotional and stuff on here, but today is a hard day and I just feel like it needs to be acknowledged.  If you read it, great! If you don't...great!  This is more for me rather than for anyone else....

Thursday, March 18, 2004.  I will never ever forget the events of that day.  I worked at Arvest Bank on McCain and was there when I got the call.  I had received several calls throughout the afternoon from people telling me there had been a wreck and 3 people had died.  No one could get the names of the victoms correct and I figured...what are the chances of me knowing them???  Right? Around 6:30pm while I was balancing my teller drawer, my phone started going off once again, it was Catherine.  She asked me if I had heard about the wreck and I said "yeah, but it wasn't anyone we know!"  She paused for a second, took a deep breath and said "Hannah, it was Taylore'."  I said "Who?"  and she said, "Han, Taylore' Hall was in that wreck...she didn't make it."  A million things  started running through my head.  I don't remember much more of mine and Catherine's phone conversation except for she was meeting me at my house.  Big tear drops were falling down my face and I fell to the floor.  How could this be happening?  I had just seen Tay...she was fine.  There's no way she can be dead. As the next few days unfolded...reality hit and to be blunt...it sucked.  Candlelight vigils, memorial service, funerals.  It was all too real. 

Taylore' Elizabeth Hall, 15
Alicia Nicole Rix, 16
Jae Lynn Russell, 16. 
Forever Angels- March 18, 2004

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They were on Spring Break, on there way to go fishing, hit by an 18 wheeler at the intersection of Hwy 5 and 89.  All three girls had on their seatbelts. 

Life is too short. 

I know that today is March 15th, but, it's Thursday, the 18th fell on Thursday that year, and Taylore' is heavily on my mind today.

 To all my friends...I love each and every one of you!  Thank you for being my rock.  I would be lost without each of you...  I am so lucky to have awesome friends that...have changed my life, for the better.  I hope you all know how much you mean to me, and I'm sorry for not telling you more often!  I hope each of you know that I am always here for you!!!  

~Hannah  




Angel

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there

so tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lie
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here