While Julia does still suffer pains in her
knee, she is pushing forward. She has even
been able to rejoin the lacrosse team, only
now she has to wear a brace. She is very
focused though on sharing her story. Her
goals were to set up an awareness club for
drinking and driving at her school, but she
had been unable to after the principal did
not respond to her request. Still, she joined
the MADD panels and continues to speak
at different schools.
Through all the obstacles and trials
faced in her recovery, Julia has powered
through and only continued to grow
stronger.
“I’m proud of her because she’s so
young and really wants to make something
good come out of all of this somehow and
help someone,” said Victoria. “She spoke at
a MADD panel. It was all parents and
teachers and superintendents and lawyers
and some victims who were older, and she’s
a little quiet and shy, but she’s very personable,
so she has that social aspect about her
that she gets her point through.”
Looking to the future, Julia plans to continue
to spread her message as far as possible.
She hopes to continue sharing her
stories through college too until she eventually
writes her own book to share her
story with a wider audience. Her goal is to
prevent this from happening to others and
to show people going through what she experienced
that everything will get better,
she said.
“I want people to know anything can
happen,” Julia said. “It doesn’t matter where
you are or timing; stuff can happen, positive
or negative. I feel like by letting other people
know or by going to school or telling
people what happened, them hearing it
from a 15-year-old girl is something they
wouldn’t expect, and that’s what I like. I remember
after it happened, I felt the worst
of things, but things got better, and I feel like
in life, there’s situations you don’t like or
wouldn’t expect, but there’s always going to
be that part where things get better.”
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