Kelli Laine DOA [DRUNK DRIVING] made me forever 18

KELLI LAINE LEWIS~ JULY 18, 1982-JANUARY 21, 2001 Born in Cape Coral Florida, raised in Columbus, Worthington Ohio. spent my last years on earth in Charlotte NC. & Tega Cay SC.
i had a great smile, infectious laugh and a lot of heart. i liked to draw, listen to music, play nintendo (old skool kind) and hanging out with my crew was the most important thing to me.
most common phrases
'wasssup fam' &
'come scoop me'

i wasnt a girly girl, or a tom boy either. i was just Kelli. jeans & a T-shirt & i was out the door. my make up was always perfect & i had really pretty eyes & always wore sparkly stuff on them. EVERYONE loved the way my hair smelled :)
i wasnt a cheerleader, didnt make the honor roll, but i did go to a couple of proms & my last report card was pretty good. YaY me! i played soccer when i was younger & i was on the 'cheer team' in jr high.
i loved kids & helped 3 children in Darfur every month.
i had a giving spirit & still do.
i collected candles, fairies & pixies. i had the longest eyelashes of anyone you would ever meet. so long that i even trimmed them so people would stop saying they were fake! lol
i loved to play pranks on people- even though it usually got me in trouble. umm like putting a rubber band around the spayer thingy at the kitchen sink so that the next person that turned on the water= OWNED!
*snickers*
i loved macaroni N cheese, cookie dough (lol), Jolly Ranchers own'd me, taco hell & ramen noodles, which we called "roman numerals" (family joke).
i drove my mom cRaZy(ier) by cooking things in the microwave in plastic bowls, which made them turn gross colors.
*angel giggles*
i rock'd NIKE, ECHO & LUGZ!
i supported the Carolina Panthers, the Tar Heels & the oHIo State Buckeye's!!i was a down girl that & everyone loved to chill with.
i would do ANYTHING for my friends. some would say i was 'loyal to a fault'
i struggled with addictions to drugs and alcohol. the old lady tried to get me help but no place would take me for treatment in SC or NC b/c i was a minor at the time & they dont have adolescent centers :(
my mom called family courts in Rock HIll for help but they said i was too old for them to help me (i was 15!) so she called a judge in rock hill to get me probated into someplace, anyplace - she knew i was in trouble. Judge Getty said he couldnt probate me into a facility because i was a minor & to call family courts...umm yeah, thats who said to call you *eyeroll*
it was the same thing with every phone call, they couldnt do anything because i was considered an adult. i was 15!
swEEt!!
i didnt even have to "fight for my right to parrrrty"
it was handed to me by the state of south carolina!
after awhile, even i knew i had a problem.
my mom took me to a shrink in charlotte who was supposed to be an 'expert' on teens. she was SO good that we had to wait EIGHT friggin months to see her! when our day came & we showed up at her office in Charlotte NC-- she refused to see me because i might be a "dual diagnosis" of alcoholism and depression.
wtf?
k, first- how do you know if you havent even seen me??? and so what if i was??!
good job Dr. Rebecca Tomsyck *sarcasm*
way to rock the Hippocratic Oath!
so after not getting anyone to help, i had to wait until i turned 18 then i checked myself into a rehab called "Keystone". they would only keep me for 5 days, so when i got out i did 12 step meetings.
i was doing pretty good until that night. i'm proof that not everyone makes it back after a relapse.

"jails~institutions~death"
wow! they werent f'n around when they said that in meetings!!
Short version of that night:
some Winthrop College students passed out flyers at my high school to make money off of us by selling us alcohol in their home.
hey..$5.00 to drink all ya want..ya know I couldn't pass that up!
i left my house with mah crew & had a designated driver
(these are not the girls i went to the party with)
we went to Rock HIll to the house of the college students.i was 18 but wasn't old enough to buy alcohol. so yeah.
i dont think the 3 people that had the party cared very much about us leaving their house & dying that night because they had another party the very next saturday & did so every week for the next 8 months until they moved.

party on right??!
lucky for them they were selling a drug called alcohol & not a drug called meth- out of their private home or they might have been charged!
my mom wonders what they are up to today... & if they ever think of Kelli Lewis, Jason Dye & Tommy Byington.

doubt it.
here's a tip from my mom:
if you sell to minors and it kills one or more of them, it's kinda the right thing to at least write an eff'n letter to the parents and say you were a moron & how horrible you feel. my mom is still waiting...
anywayz....
I had a great time at their house, danced alot, drank a lot. Ended up not leavin with my girlz. Dumb me! well ok, i wasnt really dumb, i was REALLY drunk.
I left with Jason, who i knew from school.
Jason was getting a ride home from his friend, Tommy [driver]. Tommy was giving another kid, Erich P. a ride to his car which was parked on Gold Hill Road.
we dropped Erich off and talked to him for a minute while i got out of the back seat and took Erich's place in the front. my last known words were..
"k, it's freezin! -take me home" then said my final "peace out" to Erich.
Erich was following us, b/c after tommy dropped me off, they were all going to charlotte to eat.

We were on a really curvey road- Gold Hill, when the two cars started racing. I begged Tommy to stop.. i had a HUGE fear of other people driving (even my mom!) now we all know why!!
I knew we were going down... but when you try to have a conversation with someone drunk, well- Alcohol,... always has the last word!!!!anywayz... the car went up in the air...took out the top of three trees & landed upside down in someone's front yard.
i was three miles from my house :*(
I was sittin in the front passenger seat.
Me, Jason & Tommy didn't make it. Three families got THE "knock at the door" that night.
the only way they could tell us apart was i had deep red hi-lights in my hair.
[i did the same thing to my wings]
we were all wayyy over 2x the legal limit. it's ok to test dead passengers but not the other UNDERAGE drunk driver that lived?! the "trooper" even told my mom that Erich had been drinking! hey Mike Still, way to serve & protect!!
*mom sarcasm*
if ya want to see a movie (my friends & fam are in it!) bout this night & other kids like us... call the South Carolina Prosecution office @ 803-343-0765 (not that anyone got prosecuted- ..and this is my mom speaking- as she has vito power on my page- darn her!... but no one gave a crap about our deaths) so the least they can do is send "GRAVE DECISIONS" to ya 4 phree!!!
I had a pretty cool funeral (if there is such a thing) It was damn hard to watch.
Big shout outz to everyone for coming!!!!!!!!!
Big hugz to my mom for playing some decent tunes.. (well as good as expected...for a mom) "angel standing by" ~Jewel & "in the arms of the angel" ~Sarah McLauchlan
to my mom... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FIGHTIN FOR ME TO NOT WEAR A FREAKIN DRESS!!!
you know I didn't even want it to go down like that!!!
i know how much you miss me. the smell of my hair, our kick ass fights & the making up & big hugs after. i bet you wish you could yell at me one more time...
we fought hard, but loved harder. cool that we had such a great last day together :)
sorry to all the kids who had to go to three funerals all in one day.
Thank you to all my boyz for comin down from the *614 and carrying me to "rest" or as i say...Chill in Rock Hill
to my big brother Michael, I love you! I am SO freakin proud of you!!! keep skate'n & after you finish grad school (remember your promise to g-ma bout graff'n) you can paint up a freight'r for me! remember when you got caught stealing the letter "K" for me off that shopping mall sign? LMWingsO = so busted! now look at you, married and in grad school! go you!
To my little brother, i'm SO sorry i got mad at you that last day & i said you could never come in my room ever again. of course i didnt mean it!! if i would have made it home i would have let you sleep in there like always!!
I love you SO much. watch over you every single day & i see that you still have the pictures that i made for you on your wall. scooby doo
Thanks to my step sisters Faith & Aggie for making sure my make-up n clothes looked iight n puttin my sparkle stuff on my eyes. also for watching out for mom. aggie, wayyy sweet of you to have moved back home for a while
Thanx to my step dad Bill (I bet ya all never thought I'd say that!!!) for always being there n shit (ya know I can't get too mushy wit u) ...member the time the repo man (oops taxes)came to get my car & you took off in it!! OMFG that was sOoOo funny. ya out-ran him, then parked my car in between the house & a tree so he couldn't tow it-- then told him you'd kick his a$$ the next time he "tried to take this little girls car away from her" you were my hero & I thank you.
to my grandpa: thank you so much for the letter you wrote me. i am sorry i didnt get a chance to read it, but i know what it says now.
g-pa, it wouldnt have mattered. please know that. you are the coolest grandpa ever! keep rock'n with your music! oh, and grammy & aunt barb are taking really good care of me!
to my grandma: i am so sorry bout the money you sent me to stop smoking. sowwie! those Newports own'd me! thank you for being the best grandma ever, well except for that story you told at my funeral bout me not being able to say my "R's" when i was lil. GRANDMA HOW COULD YOU?!! j/p. it was cute!!!
(((hugz to my girlz)))
Tara M.
Jenny R.
Suhmer S.
Amanda M.
Amanda T.
Cassy W.
Lindsey C.
Michelle J.
Betsy L.
Allison M.
Alison B.
Allison W.
Vivian
Olivia
Elizabeth D.
Sommer C.
Somer S.
Krystal B.
Lindsey W. ( even though ya wrecked my car biotch...it's all good! I LOVE YOU )
Aggie T. - love that we only ever had one fight..(over the tommy bibs) yeah we were dorks !!!
Thanks to Brian... I know you really did love me.
Thanks to Mike W. for coming out and keep'n me company at night
"so i wouldnt be alone" at my grave. dude, way sweet!
big ups to my charotte boyz. Ronnie, Ty, Rob & the rest of the pineville crew.
&& DEAN! you and i were wayyy too much alike! get it together dude or you will be with me!
i miss your dumb a$$ but i dont miss you THAT much!
Thanks to ALL my friendz I miss being with you all...
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MY FAMILY JUST GOT THIS BACK ON MY BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR!
see that lil heart thingy on there? that means i was an organ donor- bummer was- i ended up not being able to donate because of my injuries=
"massive blunt force trama" :(
at least i tried- .....just sayin
my work badge from Hot Topic :)
see mom, i told you i could get a job with my piercing's, tatts & hair dyed. haha.
you were not right all the time!
my fav DJ still looks at my picture on his wall while in da mix ;)
Ty got that picture from my funeral. i knew you would show up :)
we were shy dorks for not saying how we felt about eachother :(
my crib. i have wind chimes, my lil pony's, some cool butterfly's that light up at night & a lil girl thats holds my pennies in a lil dish for me :)
it's not much- but it's "WHAT I GOT" (SUBLIME)
because my state sux for not pressing any charges- the fam couldnt get help from victims assistance to pimp out my crib.
it's iight, no worries. it will happen :)
when i get my headstone- it's gonna be SO leet! the marker will have my poem & picture on it, and will have my myspace URL on it because of all of you- i wont be forgotten it'L be xtra fly while i live in the sky. (T.I. feat jamie foxx)

DONT CLICK IF YOU HAVE WHIMPISH TENDENCIES CUZ BEING US AINT SO PRETTY. ME N MY HOMIEZ
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this is in my yearbook for me, tommy & jason... it's also read in my movie by Suhmer aka slumber (haha)
WHEN SOMEBODY DIES, A CLOUD TURNS INTO AN ANGEL

AND FLIES UP TO TELL GOD TO PUT ANOTHER FLOWER ON A PILLOW.
A BIRD GIVES THE MESSAGE BACK TO THE WORLD, AND SINGS A SILENT PRAYER THAT MAKES THE RAIN CRY.
PEOPLE DISAPPEAR, BUT THEY NEVER REALLY GO AWAY.
THE SPIRITS UP THERE PUT THE SUN TO BED
WAKE UP THE GRASS, AND SPIN THE EARTH IN DIZZY CIRCLES.
SOMETIMES YOU CAN SEE THEM DANCING IN A CLOUD DURING THE DAY-TIME, WHEN THERY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SLEEPING.
THEY PAINT THE RAINBOWS AND ALSO THE SUNSETS AND MAKE WAVES SPLASH AND TUG AT THE TIDE.
THEY TOSS SHOOTING STARTS AND LISTEN TO WISHES.
AND WHEN THEY SING WINDSONGS, THEY WHISPER TO US,
"DON'T MISS ME TOO MUCH. THE VIEW IS NICE, AND I'M DOING JUST FINE"
ok enough sadville for now
~Kelli~
(with a lil help from *mom)
*ugh. i never could keep her outta my biz!!
**eyeroll**
real comments from:
DAVE NAVARRO:
"Drunk driving takes too many lives.
Thank you for spreading awareness.
requiescat in pace Kelli Laine."
: "our heart and tears are with you. we are so sorry for the loss of kelli. please take care, much love from MTv"
Dr. Drew!!
me & the old lady used to watch loveline ALL the time!
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