In Loving Memory of Michelle "Mikey" Eddington

Welcome. This website is dedicated to the memory of Michelle "Mikey" Eddington who passed away Friday, January 30, 2009 in a car accident. All content written below was contributed by friends and/or family.

What would you say about all this if you were here? I keep thinking that you would have loved this website and the outpouring of love that's flowing into it.

It's been a little over a week since you left and I have thought about you every single day. I found a whole bunch of old pictures of us just playing around as kids and hanging out as young adults. Did you know that you were in just about every photo album I've ever put together? Whether it was summer, winter holiday or spring break, I always looked forward to hanging out with you when I was in South Carolina. I feel sad that we didn't get to hang out as much since I moved down here, but I think we were both busy with all that "adult" stuff that seems to take up so much time now.

The last time I saw you, we got to look through my wedding pictures. Doug and I got married on your birthday and you were so excited about it! You loved all the pictures and I remember being so happy to share them with you. I'm glad I got a chance to share that special time with you.

I'm sorry, I know you wouldn't want me to cry, but every time I come to this site I can't help it. All the people you touched, all the friends and family who love you so much are completely devistated by your loss. I know I am.

I can still see your face just the way it was when we were hanging out at your grandma's house. I remember you running to and from your parent's house while I waited in the car, your laugh as you slid into the passenger seat and we took off for another adventure. I remember late night talks of boys and friends. I remember backrubs and songs. I remember belting Evanescence as the warm, summer wind swept past the car windows. I remember graduations, countless dates and parties, untold numbers of sleepovers.

You truly knew me in ways no one else did. I feel like I've lost a part of myself, the part of me only you remembered and loved the way you did. Few friends knew how to love the way you did. It was impossible not to love you back. You will always be loved and missed, Mikey.

I love Mikey and i alsways will until the day i die. I will always remember driving her all the way to the tail of the dragon all she knew is that we were running away for a weekend together. The drive to the top was amazing as we twisted and turned our way up i remember her saying slow down or ima be sick. She made it though all the way to the top. I pulled over at the top and got out and she just looked at me like what the hell are you doing ben. Once she got out we walked around looking out at the valleys below and the twisting roads that se did not like all to much. We rested against a rock wall on the top and i looked her in the eyes and told her how much i loved her and how much she meant to me i then got down on one knee and said "Michelle Nichole Eddington will you marry me?" With a smile on her face and tears running down her face she said yes i will. That was the best day of my life. After a while though i knew i did not deserve this angel. I try to live my life by not regreting anything but breaking it off with her is something i will regret for all my life. She meant so much to me and luckily she started talking to me a few weeks back. We gained our freindship back and i loved it i was actually planning to see her soon after.

The day it happened i got a call from jason telling me about it, i thought he was trying to play a trick on me so i dismissed it. I then got a call from tarah saying the same thing i yelled at her saying they needed to drop this act. They told me to check the the newspaper so i did and still did not believe it so i actually called the newspaper. After i had realized it was true i called jason and i will admit i cryed my eyes out. That night i felt a pain i had never felt before and will never leave my heart.

My favorite memory of her was when we were in columbia and engaged. I was working at nissan and after work one day she came to visit me at work. She walked in the back door i worked in the front so i did not see her plus i was buryed in a engine bay. Then i heard wooping and hollering in the background so i lifted my head to find out what was up. There she was in a black mini skirt a corset high heels and all done up. Every tech in the shop had dropped there work and were at the edges of there bays drueling. One of the guys actually tripped over something and fell flat on his face. She came up to me kissed me and asked when i could leave. She then yelled at my boss until he let me go home as we were leaving a few guys pulled me over and said theres no way shes my girlfriend she then showed the ring and said no im his fiance and layed a big kiss on my lips. Once we left she was so happy with everyones reactions she always loved being in the spotlight because frankly she deserved it.

Mikey was beside me through the worst parts of my life and i know she will be beside me in every battle that lies ahead of me. I promise you Mikey i will fight the rest of my life and as you always told me never give up so i will not i will push forward through this life knowing that you are beside me and that i will be with you again in the end.

I feel now that I've had time to gather my thoughts I'm ready to write
something more... I can't believe how much you have inspired me to be a
better person. In the six or seven months I've known you you grew to be one
of my best friends and the older sister I never had. I will always
remember you and your heavenly voice that I was blessed to hear before
you left. I will miss us jamming out to Paramore and RJA. I wish I
could have spent more time with you. I know that life was tough for you,
but you were finally pulling yourself out of that rut, ready to do something amazing. You inspired me to wake up each morning and face the day ahead no matter what would come my way. I know you're in a better place now with your awe inspiring voice singing with the chorus of angels in heaven. I was truly blessed to know you. Never before had such a deep friendship formed so quickly. We could talk about anything together. I wasn't scared to share my secrets with you, and nor were you. I'll miss everything about you girl. You truly touched my life. I know you will be watching over me and all of the
other friends you left behind. Thank you for everything you've ever
done. I love you from the bottom of my heart and will miss you.

(written 2/3/09)

It's been a whole year and I can't believe it. I've missed you every day since the day of your wreck I really have, I've thought about all 365 days this yr. So much has gone on this year you wouldn't even believe. I'm pregnant now! Crazy huh? I think a lot about how I wish you could be around to meet her. I think you would really enjoy her I know you would have been a great aunt haha! And I know everyone comes on here to say I wish you were here but unfortunatley you can't be and this is the only way I can tell you whats going on. We are naming her Klover! I have a feeling that you would have really enjoyed that. Considering you always used to call me Sunshine. But I dearly miss you and you will neverbe forgotten of course. I miss you lovely and I know your watching over us all. I love you sweety.

I don't know you, I never met you. But in a number of ways, we seemed to nearly brush paths. I only knew you died because people broke down in tears around me for weeks after you passed, because they said I looked so much like you.

You nearly worked where I worked, we had mutual friends, and we share a resemblance. You seem like a person gifted with too much imagination and inertia to ever be content to live a pedestrian life. Maybe you would have been great. Maybe you died at your best. I don't know.

But I can feel your presence, faint but ephemeral in my own life, and I admire the tenacity of your spirit even if I never had a chance to know you in any other way.

I won't tell you to rest in peace, because I doubt very much that you have ever done anything peacefully in your life. You were a force of nature; a tempest. Your only peace came when the world around you was in chaos. So I bid you, with as much sincerity as I have, to keep raging in your inimitible way... to show people what it really means to LIVE.