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THE KID NEXT DOOR
Eve Carson lived so fully and intensely that her death illu
minates like an X-ray the infrastructure that encompassed her:
the family who loved and guided her, surrounded by the neigh
borhood that provided an extended family, the friendships
reaching all over town, the schools that taught her and learned
from her; the teachers who delighted in her. Nurtured and
. 3 nt as she was, profiting from her immersion in this familiar
world, she left home with such a force of energy and personal
ity that she could replicate this structure at a distant college,
capturing its heart and personifying its spirit.
Those circles of
supportive people
wonder and grieve and
will forever mourn the
loss of their golden
girl, who got life
right: who grew into
a perfect storm of
intelligence, ability,
dedication, hard work,
happiness and self
less regard for other
people.
Eve personified the
neighborhood where
she grew up. Cobbham
is a well-to-do in-town
white area, but it is
no gated enclave.
Cobbham is a com
munity of curious,
loquacious, energetic
extroverts who live close together but call all Athens home,
who count on one another for friendship, babysitting, front-
porch visits and news, with children playing on the lawn. But
they work all over town in the civic, business, educational and
cultural life of their city, volunteering their evenings and week
ends to help other people get by or to get somebody elected to
improve local government.
Cobbham, though distinct in its own personality, is in many
ways typical of the neighborhoods of Athens that make our
town a special place to live—neighborhoods characterized by
close-knit relations but turned
outward to the larger commu
nity, involved in it and working
to improve the whole town.
Reared in such a milieu by
her smart, tough, caring fam
ily with their own traditions
of hard work and community
service, Eve Carson was a natu
ral. She excelled in school, she
made friends easily, she looked out for other people: she lived
as she was shown by example how life should be lived. We are
all richer for her life, and we are all poorer for its end.
Our town has been wracked, lately and always, by the
deaths of beloved and promising young men and women—by
accident, sickness, suicide, drugs, war, murder. These young
deaths rock our community like bomb blasts, the closer in fam
ily and friendship the greater the devastation. Their loss leaves
emptiness that cannot be filled, sadness that sits continuously
in the hearts of those who love them.
Now death has come to Eve Carson and to Athens. We can
not comprehend how this has happened, how violent murder
could strike so suddenly one so fully engaged in living. With
time will come a longer view, a grasp that her life, though
short, was fulfilled. We will come to be reminded that the tru
ism is true: that the quality of life is what counts and that we
all should live as she did, filling each day to the fullest, living
life in each moment, regardless of its extent.
Thus are Eve and her friends and compatriots and peers our
inspiration in the present and our hope for the future.
"The greatest generation?" Eve's father Bob Carson said,
standing surrounded by loving, grieving friends and neighbors.
"It's not their grandfathers. It's these kids. They're the greatest
generation. We've got some messes to clean up, and they're the
ones who can do it, who will do it."
Pete McCommons edilor@flagpole.com
...a perfect storm of
intelligence, ability,
dedication, hard work,
happiness and selfless
regard for other people.
Eve Carson
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