Bases 45 Cara St Louis Part 1

(Cara StLouis Farrelly) 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 Johnston ) 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)