Aurora Masters was playing outside when she died in a freak accident. Her parents are hoping their story will start a conversation and ultimately save lives.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A 5-year-old girl’s parents are sharing their daughter’s legacy after they lost her to a freak accident in theirKrystal and Tom Masters said their daughter Aurora loved to live in the moment and play in the backyard on her disc swing. On May 8, “she gave me a kiss and hug and then she went outside,” Krystal said. “This was situation normal. This was life. She just played.”
No more than 15 minutes later, she said, the neighbors rang the doorbell, saying something was wrong. “I was begging, please, please don't. This is a good kid. Don’t do it,” Tom said. “Her magnetic personality and luminous character, seriously it was just bright, brilliant, smiling,” he said. “She would wave and smile at other people in traffic to get them to smile, and then she would be like ‘Daddy, they smiled,’” Krystal said.Her parents wished they'd get to see that smile, or embrace that hug, one more time.Her parents donated her organs to help save lives.“I am proud of my daughter,” Krystal said. “I was already proud, but she's still giving, and that helps me a little bit.
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