Sandy Hook

This song, "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry, has taken on whole new meaning following the events that took place in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday. A touching song, I disagree with the line that declares "I've had just enough time."

Charlotte Beacon will never have her double digits 10th birthday party

Daniel Barden will never try out for the high school football team

Olivia Engel will never be a teenager

Josephine Gay will never get her driver's license

Ana M. Marquez-Greene will never go on her first date

Dylan Hockley will never be voted Most Likely to Succeed in the yearbook

Madeleine F. Hsu will never have kids of her own

Catherine V. Hubbard will never walk down the aisle to get married

Chase Kowalski will never take a girl out on a date

Jesse Lewis will never mow the lawn

James Mattioli will never be a dad

Grace McDonnell will never be Homecoming Queen

Emilie Parker will never have that first babysitting job

Jack Pinto will never shave his face

Noah Pozner will never experience the thrill of staying home alone

Caroline Previdi will never fight with her parents about curfew

Jessica Rekos will never shave her legs

Avielle Richman will never make a Taylor Swift music video with all of her friends

Benjamin Wheeler will never celebrate his Sweet Sixteen

Allison N. Wyatt will never graduate from college

Because they didn't have enough time. They were robbed of precious moments. There is nothing I can tell myself to make sense of tragedies like the Sandy Hook shootings. 

A Very Luck Girl can only listen to this song, try to "love a world that's broken", and remember those 20 kindergarden angels.