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[Music] Lizzy was vivacious she loved her friends and she was fun she was my best
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friend we did everything together she and I used to do just the silliest things together just no Rhyme or Reason
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she was so young and full of promise and um so excited to finally be on her career path going to school school for
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marine biology she had been working on becoming a marine biologist for several years you know just it's such a vivid
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memory of of you know her passion for you know teaching people about what she had learned she loved the Little
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Critters around her you know you'd see her when she'd have a tortoise in her hand or a little turtle and you know be
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putting it back on the brook side of our road she was you know more than just a a
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a niece and when she asked to come live with us we were more than more than welcome to uh bring her into our home
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and and and UNH was her dream school it has a wonderful marine biology program and that's where she really wanted to go
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go get it she knew that you know to save some money and she did come with live with us no no eggs today she'd come
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running through the kitchen you know oh I got my big trip couple minutes later I
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she comes running back in the back door and she's like I need boots I can't came
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home later that night and it was the note saying that her her lab partner had fallen in the water and she had to
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rescue her and the boots got wet she was so sorry oh sorry and the big sad face and stuffed the boots with newspaper and
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all that that that's just Lizzy that's what Lizzy does one of her classmates waited out
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too far in the title pool and fell in and so Lizzy trumped out to the title pool you know no no hip waiters on it's
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October it's cold almost got pulled in and then you know saved her classmate and brought her back
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out you know she's gone you know she's never coming back and you need to somehow find a way
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to go forward I believe that the fund is the closest we can get to giving her a legacy we
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have our own memories and our own thoughts and the foundation or the the fund itself allows us to reach out and
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help other people and the caliber of the people are so like Lizzy hardworking doing good in school volunteering
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outside of the school and within the school to do something they believe in and it it feels really good to be
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involved in helping someone else do something that you know Lizzy would have done had she been
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