Laura Carney’s father was killed by a distracted driver. “I needed to finish it,” she said about his bucket list. “This is what I’m supposed to do.”
when he was 54. Her brother, David, was the first to spot it.
Carney was 25 when her father was hit by a 17-year-old driver who ran a red light while chatting on a cellphone in Limerick, Pa. At the time, Carney was an aspiring writer and living in New York City. She and her husband are now based in Montclair, N.J.In the immediate aftermath of her father’s death, “I didn’t talk about it,” Carney said. “I really had some shame about it, because it felt like such an undignified way to die.
Another item she completed early on was “talk with the president.” She learned that President Jimmy Carter — who would have been president when Carney’s father wrote the list — taught Sunday school in Georgia. She flew there to meet him. While Carney completed many of the tasks on her own — including a two-week trip to Europe — “it didn’t really feel like I was doing things alone, because I knew my dad was with me,” she said. “I feel like my relationship with him is very present.”
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