(Cara StLouis....) In fact, most people (check)
And the way I've come to be sitting with you, Miles,
goes back to -- in fact, goes back my whole life --
but specifically to July 2010, when I was living in the State of Maine in the US,
Obviously, I am an American.
And with my family -- (Miles... ) You're not Canadian?
(Cara) I'm not Canadian, no: I am from the American Southwest, actually,
which is really sort of germinal to my own personal history, but
particularly there, I was living in seacoast Maine, in a little village
and my mother had come to be near the grandchildren,
because they were all growing up.
And she'd been there for about a year
and July 11 was a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning in Maine
and she got up and she was walking to church, which was about
a block and a half from her flat, from where she lived
and she had just about reached the other side of the main street,
which is, we call it the High Street, it's a very small town,
when she was actually run over by a van, a minivan
and thrown god knows how far, twenty or (no sound)
point my mother was 74 years old,
she was definitely, you know, in the latter moments of her life,
her lifespan and anyway, just about every bone in her body was broken
and she was conscious, believe it or not, taken to the hospital. (2:03)