At Ride To Pride we are proud to say that we not only work at helping others to better deal with their problems or issues, we also help them to understand why they are having these troubles. Treat the symptoms and the cause, is our belief!
We don't always get to see the longer term results of our services because we generally have our kids for such a short time. Once in a while someone really special touches our lives, sometimes more than we touch theirs. Here's a story of just such a person;
Hello, my Name is Anna Marie Maes and this is my story of loss, heartache, love and passion;
I was born in Las Vegas, New Mexico to a family that was poor and always struggling to get by. When I was 6 years old I was getting ready to go to the store to get an ice cream with my parents and older brother. This was a special treat that I had been anxiously looking for. On our way out the door, I got ahead of my parents and followed after my brother who was across the street dumping the trash when, suddenly, I was hit by a truck. continued...
On average someone is killed by a drunk driver every 45 minutes. In 2008, an estimated 11,773 people died in drunk driving related crashes—a decline of 9.8 percent from the 13,041 drunk driving related fatalities of 2007.
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Anna
