When Melanie was killed in a freak accident, a tire came off a truck and went through her windshield when she was returning home from a skiing trip to Michigan; It floored me because it was so unbelievable. Her father was my Jr. High Principal and she was two years behind me in school, my best friend was her friend so I knew her fairly well, she was a brilliant young woman with a bright future, she was attending Miami of Ohio, the same school Paul Ryan attended. Burying a twenty-one year old is sad but I can't imagine the pain of a parent burying a child.