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That Girl Who Survived The Car Wreck Where 2 Boys Died · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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  Speaker 1: I saw a teddy bear tied to a big tree
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  Speaker 1: at the end of an exit ramp icy I pecked
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  Speaker 1: at by birds, tattered and battered and damp. The next
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  Speaker 1: day it was still hanging in there, fresh flowers resting
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. Somebody's life had been lost there, somebody's
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  Speaker 1: grief had been found. The bear bore a blink one
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  Speaker 1: eight two logo. Rumor is kid was seventeen. A girl
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  Speaker 1: in the back survived it. She cried out his name
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  Speaker 1: at the scene. The passenger had no belt on, and
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  Speaker 1: the windshield could not contain. Only one survivor left to
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  Speaker 1: carry a lifetime of pain. The teddy bear's gone from
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  Speaker 1: that tree now, but the rope is still in place,
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  Speaker 1: the girl said. They all had been singing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like there had been some big race. Now she's that
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  Speaker 1: girl who survived the car wreck where two boys died.
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  Speaker 1: She'll tell her closest friends she wished as she went
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  Speaker 1: with them, and wonder why she was denied