Early in this whole thing the villageof LaGrange scheduled a special meeting to discuss safety on 47th and throughout the municipality. We decided as a family that we were going to use the town’s pet parade the weekend before the meeting to spread the word and to put a face on this tragic event by creating fliers, distributing them to neighbors and acquiring as many petition signatures as possible.
That morning we drove in a number of separate cars and stopped in front of our house to drop off some of the fliers for another friend to pick up. When we arrived we stepped out of our car and walked over to K’s car. On the radio was our wedding song, a popular Keith Urban track, so it wasn’t completely unusual to hear it but I was still a bit taken back. A few seconds later I looked up into the tree above the car, in front of our house, and a white dove was there staring back down at us. A white dove? I can’t say that I’ve ever seen one anywhere, let alone at our house. Whether or not this was her, which we hope & think it was, it will always have a special place among our many memories.