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Verity. She was the daughter of a close friend who I loved dearly. She was taken far, far to early. Not even given a chance to grow up and be corrupted by the real world.

Verity-Eloise Discombe was struck by a car in Salisbury on Friday night and subsequently passed away on Saturday afternoon from extensive internal injuries.

I tutored her for a while in maths while she was in high school, naturally her grades went up after this. To be honest I think it was more because I treated her like a person rather than my untapped teaching ability. She just needed someone to explain things to her a little better than her teacher.

She always found a way for me to give her crap about something, whether it was her inability to eat anything with flavour or her desire to wear dog collars and fishnet’s with holes in them. Going out to dinner was always a pain because her mum would order something like pasta with butter or chips for her, not matter what the restaurant. I’m not talking a few years ago, more like a couple of months ago. She was gradually coming around to the concept of condiments, but it was a stretch. It was never a dull moment.

I always picked on her about something or annoyed her excessively in public because I knew she hated it. I don’t think she hated it really, she loved the attention. Towards the end she would pick on me too and I know from a photo she found in my gallery she was going to pick apart my punk efforts. I wouldn’t have minded, she has more experience in that area than I do. In my defence, I am a geek, not a goth/punk/emo/whatever.

I really wish she still could.

Verity lived as hard as she could in the time that she had, further confirming the saying: “The light that burns twice as brightly, burns for half as long”.

My thoughts go out to her entire family, this will take a while to recover from but I always maintain something good comes from everything. Everything. You just have to give it time and be willing to see what it brings.

This is the second time I’ve done this on my site about a friend, I’d like it to be the last but death is as certain as life so I doubt it. As with last time if any of her friends happen to come across this site then you’re more than welcome to leave your thoughts or comments either at the end of this post or in the forums.

Sleep well Vet, I’ll miss you.