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Show Page Four - The Eureka Reporter - July 13. 2001 Pieces H by Liz Elder Yesterday my husband and were on our way down MS to the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. We were late, as usual, and we were supposed to meet our very anal son who starts com- plaining that were going to be late the minute we make plans to meet anywhere. "I KNOW youre not going to be there on time." He says this to set me up so that I make all kinds of ridiculous promises about being early so as if there is to be a thing as "more than I ultra-prompt--- as prompt. was dozing, my usual method of dealing with boring situations when I can't stand in front of the fridge and wonder what I can eat. Suddenly Clay slammed on the brakes and said. "I saw a 1 1 body." started up thinking for a minute that he must have hit some crazy person who'd decided to run across the road. Then for some reason I worried that he'd hit a porcupine. A huge cloud of dust lay across the median. We parked on the left side of the road on the median and started racing across the road. Clay explaining as we that a car had just flipped over the road and the medium in front of us and a woman had shot out of it like she d been shot from a cannon. Not to be selfish here, but I am not the person you want to have in an accident. I usually get weak in the knees and I have been known to faint when my children have received shots. So I was somewhat about how badly I was going to react, more concerned that I would be more a problem myself than a solution. The car had flipped from the south bound lane to the outside edge of the north bound lane.We were among the first people there. A green Suburban with three little boys inside was parked near the body and another man had stopped further down the road and was directing traffic around the accident. A small orange car sat upright ahead of us, windows shattered, doors crushed. Inside a man with a bloody face sat with his head down. A woman from one of the cars had a cell phone and was already talking to 911. We walked back down the road to the woman who had been thrown from the car. She lay like a dropped rag doll. She wasn't breathing and I was relieved that she might be dead. I didnt want to have to help her. I didnt want her to be there lying facedown on that hard gravel. Everyone else walked back to the car and I was left alone with her. I could hear the wind blowing across the highway and I heard a couple of cars drive by. My husband came back to pull me out of the roadway but I felt like I wanted to throw myself down on the road and protect her from any further harm, the only thing I was certain I could manage. I had absolutely no idea what to do, but I knew I wasn't going to leave here there alone. I could- I self-conscio- us U n n't remember a single thing from anothcr shirt from the car. In short order others came. any of the first aid classes I've ever had. Just she and I. this perfect stranger that I wanted to comfort but didn't know how. Then suddenly breath started to burble out of her and I felt panic, I looked around for someone else to show up now and take charge, Miraculously, they did. A strange looking woman leapt from a passing car. She had on a garish Las Vegas tee shirt and denim capris that were too small for her large body. Her finger-suc- h Someone from a newspaper set up and waited, staring into the distance, for the crucial shot when they would pick up the girl and put her in the ambulance. Three motorcycle riders stopped and took a look around before they drove off. A cop came and then a whole army of policemen raced up. A NEW indispensable Internet tool for your business! The girl's name was Kelly. The Itah Legal Notice Database is online! The ambulance came from Scipio Manual searches are free! 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