Once, when she came to visit us, I was sick with a stomach bug, and Amanda, ever the athletic trainer, had the perfect solution. ![]() ![]() She used to call me “Stumpy” because I was short and round and had a tendency to get grouchy between meals. Amanda was a teenager when I started kindergarten, which made her the perfect mix of young and relatable, and mature and cool.Īmanda was the first person I can remember really admiring. My mom is the youngest of her four siblings by a decade, which means that most of my cousins were having children of their own while I was still in diapers. The reason I wanted a Focus was simple: When my cousin Amanda used to come visit my family from Oklahoma, she was always driving her silver car that she had nicknamed the “Pimpin’ Focus.” I’d almost forgotten about my Focus dreams until last week, when Amanda died of cancer. I dreamed of whipping my cool, worldly friends around my tiny Texas town in a 4-cylinder sedan, blasting all the music that didn’t play on my parents’ favorite Christian radio station. When I was a kid, I wanted my first car to be a Ford Focus.
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