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To: neolib who wrote (267558)	1/8/2006 5:48:55 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572561

So 17-year-old Laura Welch did cause the death of a friend by running a stop sign, but to see more in the story than that is to surrender oneself up to baseless imaginings. Yes, it is always easier to attribute malice to bad outcomes, but that does not mean malice is an integral component of tragedy, especially those involving people Fate later chooses to exalt. Thanks. I had never seen such a detailed explanation of the circumstances surrounding the accident. I now see how it could have been accidental. However, I do think the guy was her ex- boyfriend........that is not something all that hard to disprove were it not true. She was barely 17 and she had taken the life of a friend. She has since carried the weight of this, and it changed her, at least according to those who knew her before and after. Only rarely has she spoken of this with the press (although she has often been asked), but even on those occasions her answers have been oblique, almost as if she cannot bear to think of it, let alone speak of it. No matter whether it was intentional or not, I think the above is very true.