Cuba High School

Bonnie Ann shares her story of when she was young. She remembers growing up with her best friend and they drama they got into. Bobbie Ann had an interesting life, as a young girl she was hit with a big issue. Her friend and sort of boyfriend lost a younger sister while the brother Glenn was off at a basketball championship. When communities are hit by a lost of a child, it is remembered, but because something so more interesting took place it caused the community and citizens to forget about what happened. As I was reading, I was sad to read that citizens lost such a tragedy that took place, but I can also see where the excitement was replaced as their high school basketball team returned home with a trophy. I would have acted like Bobbie Ann did as the bus pulled up at the town square of the members from a basketball team that won a trophy and her ‘boyfriend’ was coming off the bus. Her best friend and her mother who had lost the three year old from a car accident. I would not have known what to do, if I should react to both parties, or just act like I saw nothing that was going on.

Bobbie Ann’s life seemed simple and peaceful, but she lived a tough life. She had to go through the pain of a friend losing a little sister. Bobbie Ann made the best of life, and enjoyed all of what she could. I am glad that she wrote this story and shared it so others could read and understand. Understand that life is not easy, and when a death takes place so many are touched. As Bobbie Ann walked over to the grave yard with her best friend and watched her tend to the pill of dirt that her little sister was buried under. She should have been a comforter, let her known that she was there if she needed a shoulder to cry on and if she wanted to talk she was there. A story like the Bobbie Ann has shared with us demonstrates what some people had to live through and deal with in the past.

As I read along, one thing I sort of noticed was that she always was with her best friend, there wasn’t much talk about where her own parents were. It almost was like she was writing a story that did not include her parents, but that could have just been how I read it.