Only hours before her death in an automobile accident Tuesday, 23-year-old Kayla White had wished veterans well on Facebook, Laura Berman writes in The Detroit News.
Kayla was full of vitality and joy, eight months pregnant with a son, Braedin Campbell, she had named when he was still more an idea than a baby. For months, she'd recorded food cravings and anticipation.
"I'm a mom. I was pregnant, but I've never seen anyone as excited about having a baby as Kayla was," Boyle said. "She wanted to kiss Braedin's little toes," said her mother, Susan White, sitting at the kitchen table in the Ferndale home where Kayla had grown up.
"My mom is the best," Kayla wrote on Sept. 15. "She got me a pair of sweat pants and made me no-bake cookies." On Sunday, noticing her pregnant friend's "wobbling" at work, Florina Boyle had joked with her. "I told her to go home and rest her feet."
A 69-year-old Beverly Hills man driving a Cadillac had plowed into the rear end of Kayla's 2003 Jeep Liberty with enough force to flip the Jeep, which struck another car; Kayla's car burst into flames.
