

Risk everything
I can’t get a picture of a chubby blonde girl out of my head. She’s standing up straight against a wooden cupboard, her blue eyes doing most of the smiling, her pony tail bursting from the top of her head like the best kind of pom-pom. If you’d ask her in that moment her age, she’d grin proudly and form her stubby fingers into a peace sign. Her name is Noely Belle. And 10 days ago, she was killed in a car accident. At her funeral Saturday, her mother, one of Aaron and my favo