My Angel, Carol

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DAUGHTER "CAROL RAE SMART" 12/21/83 - 1/26/02

Hello I hope you are having a good day today.
I wanted to let you know about my daughter and what happened to her on 01-26-02.
Carol just turned 18 on 12-21-01.
She was attending G.H.S.and GCCC here in Greenwood,S.C.
Carol was a member of HOSA and a member of the National Vocational Technical Honor Society.
Carol had planned to become a Physical Therapist.
Carol was one of those Children who new what she wanted to be at a very early age.
She had a very bright future ahead of her.
Carol will be missed by a lot of people for she made herself known to all she came in contact with.
All Carol ever talked about was graduation 2002, going to college and getting married one day and having kids. Carol loved children.
Carol went out on a Friday night to go dancing. Carols favorite thing to do was to dance.
Carol didn't drink or do drugs. Carol went out to have fun that Friday night.
Some boys at the club got into a fight about a boy putting his hands on a girl in force.
One of Carols friends stepped in to stop the boy from hurting the girl and in turn they were asked to leave the club.
Carol and the boy who tried to help the girl left the club it was now SAT. 1- 26-2002.
Carol didn't know what was going to happen next.
Carol was driving when they left the club that morning around 3:00am.
Some how the boy got in the drivers seat. Carol would not have let him drive the car.
The boy was over the limit of being drunk, he was on zanexes, and had been smoking pot all in the same night.
Carol had a good head on her shoulders. She would not have let him drive the car that night.
I wish I knew what really happened that night. Carols friend was doing 110 miles an hour.
The back wheel hit the side of the road and made it go out of control.
It then hit a tree then wrapping its self around the tree.
Some time in all of this Carol was thrown from the car and killed almost instantly.
They said nothing could have saved them while going that fast.
Her friend was also killed that morning in the car.
I cry every day. I want to know that my daughter can rest in peace.
She had her life taken from her. She had so many dreams and she was making all of them come true.
Carol would have Graduated high school and Graduated from health occupations this school year 2002.
Carol knew what she wanted in life. Carol was going to go to work at Whesley Commones Nursing Home while she went to college to become a physical therapist.
She would have been going to school with me for awhile and this made her happy.
She was truly my best friend that I will ever have in this life.
I will miss her and love her forever.
~ Love, Cheryl ~

You never said 'I am leaving',
You never said 'goodbye'.

You were gone before I knew it,
and only God knows why.

A million times I need you,
A million times I cried.

If love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died.

In life I loved you dearly,
In death I love you still.

In my heart a place you hold,
No one could ever fill.

It broke my heart to lose you,
But you didn't go alone,

A part of me went with you,
The day God took you home.

Author~Anna Ardizzone~

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"IN LOVING MEMORY OF CAROL SMART",
TO CAROL'S MOM, MY DEAR FRIEND, CHERYL
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