Some Rememberances

A few of the posts one can find for Brandy...

1. Katelynn Jacobsposted toBrandy Rosine

   When you go I will know. Follow you to the stars and when the world burns apart, there'll be a place for your car. I'd give you everything, if only I'd have known you'd take it but you don't, cause you're you. That's why I'll always love you, my pearl of the stars. 

   Megan Shedoskyposted toBrandy Rosine
2. i love you.. and i miss you more than anything. i would give anything to just see your face one last time. i hope your happy up in heaven. always in my heart ♥

   Kaycee Klineposted toBrandy Rosine 

   Just wanted to stop by and say I LOVE YOU!

3. Katelynn Jacobsposted toBrandy Rosine
   

   
   

   I keep thinking about you. You would still be here. And I know you well enough to know you would forgive them for what they did, because that's how you are. Brandy, I've learned a lot in these past few weeks than I've wanted to my whole life. You can't live you're life angry. Who knows what could happen. I'm going to forgive people so much easier now, cause I won't always be around.

   
   
4. RIP Brandy Rosine♥

   
   

   

5. Bethany Shaferposted toBrandy Rosine

   Reading what I read about you yesterday broke my heart. You were a beautiful person inside and out, and you will always live within me and many other's hearts. My prayers go out to your family. I will never believe you're gone, Brandy. ♥ Rest in peace.

   Antionetta Pesaposted toBrandy Rosine

6. This is hard . Even for me. I can't imagine how your family is feeling. They're in my thoughts live and so are you. Its hard to sleep after getting the testimony but I'm going to stick out for you. I hope your well. We all miss you and love you.
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   Hannah Taylorposted toBrandy Rosine

   Knowing you were gone was and is still so hard i think about you everyday but to know what they had done to you. I can't even begin to process it. Its something so unfathomable. you of all people NEVER deserved that. Words cannot even describe the pain this brings me and i know its not just me but everyone that knew you and loved you. I'm really at a loss all i can think of to say is i'm soo sorry this happened to you and i know that sorry couldn't even begin to cover what they have done. I love and miss you

   Skye Keegan Smithposted toBrandy Rosine
8. i feel like ill never sleep again, i havent cried this hard since i found out you passed a few months back. they dont deserve our hate or our anger. even though its hard im trying

   Ariel Reid
9. I don't know how I'll be able to sleep after hearing how Brandy Rosine spent her last minutes on earth.
   It seems almost unfair that I can even consider it. I'm mourning her all over again.

   • Megan Honen Knowing how it happened.....its so much worse now....it was awful before but...now its somehow worse
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       Patty Strong Kelly, I thought of you as soon as I watched that on the news....just horrible, horrible.....
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    Jessica Elizabeth Josephposted toBrandy Rosine

    
    

    
    

    

    Jessica Elizabeth Joseph this is how I will remember you ♥ i will always have a special place in my heart for you.
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    Alysa DeGeorge

    
    

    Brandy Rosine, i miss you more than words will ever be able to explain. you were an amazing girl and a great friend. You will forever be in my heart and i hope and pray that these girls rot in hell for what they have done to you :'(
    
    http://www.palive365.com/2012/07/25/accused-killers-bound-for-court/

    
    

    Accused killers bound for court | PALive365

    www.palive365.com

    Posted by Andy Alm on Jul 25, 2012 in Andy Alm, Crime, Editors, Headline, Meadville, News, News by City, Pennsylvania State Area

    
    

    
    
12. Jenna Horvatposted toBrandy Rosine
    

    
    

    i feel so sick all over again after hearing the news today brandy... i think about you a million times every day and i dont think that will ever stop. everyone misses you so much.♥

    
    
13. Missy Simon McDade
    

    
    

    Please be in prayer for my cousin, Carrie Stevens-Rosine and our family as the details of our dear Brandy Rosine's death comes to light. The family is going to need all the strength that they can get to get through this nightmare.

    
    
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    Jessica Elizabeth Josephposted toBrandy Rosine

    Dear Brandy,
    rest easy babygirl ♥ I love you, and I'm keeping my head up for you.... Keep visiting me in my dreams please!

    
    
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    Kaycee Klineposted toBrandy Rosine

    I'm sitting here balling, I just watched the news... I cant believe what you had to go through... I cant handle thinking about it. Its killing me. Idk how to not be so angry and sad, I can feel my heart breaking</3 I cant take this..

    
    

    Manda J Williamsposted toBrandy Rosine
16. just saw the whole story on the news... noone deserves that kind of treatment esp with what a good person you were...that absolutely broke my heart.. god bless you!!

    
    
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    Skye Keegan Smithposted toBrandy Rosine

    I miss you babe. There's not a day that goes by that I dont see or hear something and it makes me think of you. You're always on my mind. I miss you so much. I miss getting random phone calls from you. Or givin you my phone to tell people directions, because I was horrible at telling them. Aha. You're wonderful. Just thought I should let you know. Ima call you, and you need to call me back within ...See More

    
    

    Krysti Horvatposted toBrandy Rosine

18. Some realities are so unthinkable, unfathomable, that our brains cannot even process the information as it is so dissimilar to anything we've known.
    This unfortunately leads to the information bouncing around my/our head/s looking for an escape. To no avail.
    Brandy, wouldn't you suggest a lobotomy?

    
    
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    Katelynn Jacobsposted toBrandy Rosine

    I need you. I need you to come over and take me away from all of this. I can't believe I'm even doing this to myself when I know I deserve so much better. I don't know what to do at this point. I know you would talk me out of just keeping myself on one person, and to see what else is out there. I know I deserve better. I keep telling myself that. I think I just need to hear it from you. And I guess I'm just scared to even try. I don't want a repeat of all the last ones that lied to me. I just need you here so I can vent to you. I miss you B. I miss you so damn much. <|3

    
    

    Kaycee Klineposted toBrandy Rosine
20. Hey babygirl, so I randomly thought about that day in the camper that you showed me that rock paper scissors thing and I couldn't help but giggle(: Thanks for the smile babygirl, I love you so much♥

    Michael David McMurrayposted toBrandy Rosine
21. Miss you brandy!

    Katelynn Jacobsposted toBrandy Rosine

22. you have no idea how bad i need you right now. i could come to you for anything, and i have no one to come running to me at the wierdest hours of the night. <|3
    
    i never knew how much i needed you till i couldnt see you.

    
    

    Carrie Stevens-Rosineposted toBrandy Rosine
23. Yes Baby this should be getting easier, but it keeps getting harder and harder. There are days I don't know what to do next, so I just sit there and stare...I am so beside myself sometimes. I just want to hear your voice, hug you so tight and never let you go. This was supposed to be God's choice not for someone else to decide. Mommy misses you so very much Baby!

    Brenda Stevens Barrettposted toBrandy Rosine

24. It has been 2 months today since we lost you, it should be getting better but there are days that I still can not believe this happened to you and our family and how they could do this to you. I think about you everyday. I love you girlfriend. Aunt Brenda

    Billy Knightposted toBrandy Rosine
25. OMG Brandy I miss you girl! I seen your facebook pic and I just got tears running down my cheeks:/ Work is different without you.
    I miss you!!!!!!!! RIP

    Skye Keegan Smithposted toBrandy Rosine
26. i feel the need to dance, and the greatest dance i ever had was with you... at the skunk, remember? im not making fun, you did well for just learning. i hope oneday we can dance again. rest easy baby.

    
    

Missing

This is the image I created on May 21st, after the missing persons report was filed. We took it door to door in Meadville, PA when that red cell phone of hers pinged a cell phone tower. We were much too hopeful, we spent a long time on those streets, in and out of businesses...

The following is a link to a video that Brandy's friend Ariel created while Brandy was missing.
http://youtu.be/N0JqLG0TzZU

What Happened to Brandy?

Well, world, hello. My name is Krysti Horvat, I'm 26, I'm from Boardman Ohio with a giant cause at hand. 
My very good friend Brandy Rosine(-Stevens), 20, was murdered on May 17th, 2012 by a friend of hers and an accomplice. The story is horrific, the details chilling. My focus is to memorialize her life and to carry out her legacy.
As this is my first blog, I will keep it short. But here is the eulogy I presented at her funeral, in its entirety;

"Hello everyone. First I would like to thank you all for coming. My name is Krysti Horvat, my family lived behind Brandy when she was in school. She lived there from about when she was in sixth grade until the time she went to live with her grandparents in highschool.

When I first met Brandy, she possessed a teenage angst the size of a football stadium. And I loved that about her. Brandy never settled for anything less than what she wanted. If there was a cause she believed in, she would talk about it endlessly until she noticed a change. Brandy loved deeply and entirely, she was always there when I needed someone to talk to. She was someone who loved her friends and would do anything for them. She was passionate, and had the ability to express her passion through her words and actions. She once wrote, "We humans live for compassion. It is written in Darwin. In every known clinical research done, humans strive for that one hug from their mother or that one comforting word from a friend."

Brandy shared a story from when she was a toddler. She would get time-outs for yelling at her mother from the backseat of the car to drive faster. This may have led to her receiving a go-kart as a child. She loved going to her cousins to go four-wheeling. "I learned that it's fun to ride in the rain," she said, "That donuts aren't good for the yard, and thorns are hard to remove. Not from my skin, but from my helmet." She just wanted to go fast.

Her friends remember taking adventures with her. Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Vault, Brandy needed and loved energy drinks. Lying on the pavement staring at the stars with her, holding her hand, skipping down hallways, taking walks, going to concerts, laughing with her, and her smile are all the special memories her friends have of Brandy.

She always had a passion for music. She proudly proclaimed herself an orch-dork in highschool. She was a bassist. Brandy would play Mario Kart and DJ Hero all day if she could. Brandy was as clever as a fox, and perhaps the most witty person I've ever known. She once said, "If it wasn't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudest colony."

I was recently asked what Brandy does for a living. Well.. Brandy is a comedian. She'll pick you up with words. She's a librarian, an encyclopedia of knowledge. Brandy is a therapist, a shoulder for all of her friends. She lived for helping others, for making other people feel comfortable, for love. Brandy is a musician, a poet. She is a spectrum of colors, a renaissance woman, if you will.

All Brandy wanted was to be herself in a world without prejudice, and I believe Brandy achieved that goal the best she could. Brandy was an inspiration to others. She taught others not to fear who they are, but to embrace his or her self.

And nothing of this has changed. Brandy is still all of these things. She's just counting on us to activate our memories and keep her alive. She shared 20 years with us, and now it is time to cherish those years.

Thank each and every one of you for coming today. Brandy would poop her pants to see the amount of support and love that keeps pouring her direction. Thank you."

Here are some links to the story, please be advised the details are graphic, and you should not read if you are weak of emotion and/or stomach;


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/brandy-stevens-rosine-case-love-triangle_n_1711393.html

Meadville Tribune



Currently, I am trying to raise money for a memorial statue to honor my friend and help her loved ones cope with this tragedy. Her remains are in the possession of her 16 year old sister, Steph. Her mother, Carrie, and her grandmother, Kathy.
I am looking at memorial benches as well, and considering possible spots for this bench. 

For future reference, here are the links and information on the fund-raising accounts that will all go toward Brandy and the Rosine-Stevens family.
Paypal: (Which charges me for each deposit, something I am working on!)
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=T6GZN7DUWE2NL

Huntingon Bank:
Brandy Rosine Memorial Fund
Account #:01780228415 
EIN#: 45-5363221
‎3960 South Ave.
Youngstown, OH 44512
330 788-3263