Kate Voorhes
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About Me:
23 year old female, from Boston MA. A Tufts Engineering Physics graduate. About to move to Switzerland to do a Master's/PhD in Neuroscience. I love to run, bike, ski, do yoga, write poetry, and cook, and all of these have been especially therapeutic since my mom died unexpectedly this year in a car accident. I ran my first half marathon this year in memory of my mom (she was a runner as well...and was running right beside me).
About my Loss:
The last time I saw my mother was when I waved to her as I started driving to go on a solo ski trip. She came running out of the house and gave me a huge hug through the window (ok, maybe a couple). She couldn't let go, she could never give me enough hugs. Four days later, on January 29, 2014, two cops told me that my mother was in a fatal car accident on her way home after dropping my sister off at college. I didn't comprehend what they told me. The word 'fatal' didn't make sense. That means someone died, right? "Who died?" I asked. "We're so sorry," they said.

She was my rock, and my home was wherever she was. She was the closest and best relationship I will ever have with anyone and she felt the same way...it made her happier than anything to know that we were best friends and that we trusted each other in a way that doesn't often exist. She was a survivor - at 23, was a victim of traumatic brain injury and made a full recovery when 99.99% of severe TBI patients do not. She was and will always be my inspiration for studying neuroscience, so I am grateful for that. She loved more deeply than anyone. She had this rare vivacity for life that you could only understand having met her. Everyday things we all take for granted she loved deeply and more thoroughly than I will ever comprehend. She had the purest heart, she couldn't lie, or say a bad word about anyone due to a far too great compassion. She was bubbly and sparkly, crazy and giddy, had an infectious laugh, and just made everyone around feel so good about him or herself!

I miss her more every day. The loss has allowed me to feel at a greater depth that I was previously immune to, or unaware of. I struggle constantly to get out of bed in the mornings since every day is a reminder that she isn't here. Every day the scene where the cops sat me down and asked if I was her daughter replays over and over again. Some days it's unbearable, others it's even worse. I'm still in a state of increasing shock and denial. I don't truly believe that she is gone, that she is dead. My worst fear used to be watching her get older....and now a fear worse than that became my reality. All I want, besides one last hug, to do is talk about her, talk about the increased intensity of every emotion that I experience day in and day out.

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