her before felt a weighing force on their hearts as though they had known her for years simply from her beauty in the head shot they had chosen to show on the news. Everyone was saying that it was such a tragedy that such a young girl was taken away from this earth, and it was.
Ella De was such a ray of sunshine that made it physically impossible for people not to smile when she walked by; that's why the entire town took it so hard. They held a touching funeral for her, where her casket was surrounded by everyone in town.They were crying and cursing the "God that could have possibly allowed this to happen", mourning for a girl who wasn't even being buried.
Her face looked so perfect in the photo they used in her place, and even more perfect as I look at it in person, sitting as a beautiful masterpiece on my mantel.