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LANDIS — To remember those lost in automobile accidents, a crowd of 50 students, parents and teachers gathered at South Rowan High School to light candles, sing and pray.
As students at South Rowan High prepare for the school’s prom tonight at Concord’s Speedway Club, the mother of a student who died in an accident last year begged them to act responsibly.
“Parents raise you, they teach you, tell you what’s right and wrong,” Christiane Sutton, the school’s financial secretary, told a crowd of about 50 people Thursday night. “But when you’re out of our sight, you have to make a choice.”
Sutton’s 18-year-old son, Seth, died on May 26, 2000, after a drunken pedestrian wandered into the path of his car.
“As a parent, our job is to raise them and teach them right from wrong,” Sutton said. “But after a certain age, if they choose the drinking and the drugs, then they suffer the consequences.”
Her husband, Keith, read a poem entitled “The Gentle Giant” — named after his late son, who stood 6 feet, 8 inches tall.
“They have the right to choose what’s in their path,” Christiane Sutton said. “I want them not only to think of themselves but of the ones they love...
“Don’t take for granted that someone knows you love them. Make sure you tell them. You don’t want to let things go unsaid.”
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