Podcast Appearances
You know those feelings when you're just like, oh my God, I just want to rewind time so badly.
Even worse, she couldn't help but feel responsible if she hadn't told Bathsheba to come back across the street.
She felt she probably wouldn't have been struck by the car.
So obviously this is a devastating incident.
All five of the girls were at the scene when she was hit.
So they ran home immediately and they explained to their mom what had happened and Carolyn was just as devastated.
Also, it wasn't just the loss of a pet for her, but she was heartbroken for her children.
And worried that they had seen something so traumatizing.
And there was also this weird underlying feeling that Bathsheba's death signaled something about the subtle changes in their community.
If that carload of teenagers had actually been following the law and not yelling and hanging out of their fucking windows, maybe that entire scene wouldn't have happened.
So in the weeks that followed, everyone in the family dealt with their grief in their own ways.
But Andrea seemed to struggle more than the other kids.
She was wracked with an intense sense of guilt.
And she was usually like a very chatty, outgoing girl.
But this just made her kind of like pull into herself.
The shift in her personality was really concerning for Carolyn, but at the same time, there were other things going on that were kind of occupying most of her attention.