This is how it happens.
Your friend/daughter/granddaughter/cousin goes missing. Days pass, you check the address she was last known to be at, you call her, text her, post missing signs. Utilize social media to build awareness, and you talk to people you have never heard of about your missing person.
You go door to door an hour away begging for answers, asking kids at the park if you've seen the girl in this picture.
One day later, you get the horrific phone call; your worst nightmare has come true. They found her body.
That morning you find yourself in an office at the bank. A curly haired lady is explaining tax information to you; you have decided to open up an account for the family of Brandy Rosine. At the funeral, you post a sign letting fellow mourners know that this exists.
You begin google image searching memorial benches. To create a place to sit and mourn the loss of Brandy and celebrate her life becomes the main goal.
Two months later, at the advice of a friend of Brandy's, you order one hundred wrist bands with her name on them. Oh, don't forget to put a smiley face on them, because these bands must bring a positive message, they will connect us to Brandy in a way we may never be connected to her again.
After a week and a half, the first hundred wrist bands are gone, and the memorial fund has doubled itself. Awareness grows, and you find yourself buying stamps every other day, and quite happily.
A benefit is held at a local bar, and you walk away with a few hundred more dollars. The feeling, walking into that bank with the envelope for Brandy, is indescribable.
Your partner, Brandy's mom, who has become such a close friend, gets us into the Octoberfest. That's where the bulk of the money was raised. After that, another benefit at a bar, and BAM, you're at the bank again, purchasing a $2,500 money order to purchase a bench from YSU.
The bench is finally installed in the last week of December,
The dedication ceremony is Saturday, January 5th, at 12:00 noon!
Miss you, Brandy, I wish she could have seen this.
