Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Crash Ended Dreams For Woman, Boyfriend


Darren Hoover loved Cadillacs. He owned a 1994 Seville, midnight blue, with beige leather seats. He souped it up, too: noisy exhaust pipes that got him more than one traffic ticket; a semi-truck horn that surprised people whenever he blew it; a state-of-the-art stereo that blasted Metallica.
His girlfriend, Kayla Richardson, often sat in the passenger seat. He held her hand as he drove fast down the back-country roads. And when he looked away from the windshield toward her, butterflies flew around in her tummy.
The two of them planned to get each other tattoos for Christmas 2004. He wanted the Cadillac emblem, big, across his back. She wanted butterfly wings, with a halo on top.
Darren never got his tattoo. Kayla got hers eventually, but instead of a halo, her angel wings are framed with the wreath from the Cadillac emblem, in his memory.
Darren died Dec. 6 that year, after crashing his beloved Caddy on a county highway in the Pepin County town of Lima. His car flew over a hill after hitting some black ice late at night, plowed into some trees and flipped. He was 21. His blood-alcohol level was 0.097.
Darren and salamander tattoo his friend, Jacob Weisenbeck, who was severely injured but survived, had been hanging out at a bar, Kayla said.
The crash occurred a mile or so from the scene of the crash that killed Darren's 14-year-old brother, Justin, 11 years before.
Darren and tattoo removal before and after Kayla met at Durand High School, where he was homecoming kingproduced the 2002 senior class video. The two didn't get together until a couple of years after graduation.
They had been dating just four months when he died, but they had lots of dreams. He was buying an auto shop where he had worked since eighth grade. And someday, he was going to buy a new Cadillac: a luxury, high-performance CTS-V, black on black, supercharged.
Four years later, Kayla still thinks of him all the time.
I've missed him, just being in the Caddy, tattoo istanbul she said. And, when we were in the Caddythe way he looked at me.


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