Bakersfield........ took that drive yesterday, to say good-bye to someone I have known it seems all my life at least since I was a little girl of 5/6 yrs old.. We would play together so much day after day we would have to take a break because we were exhausted and started fighting... We dreamed of growing old together, marrying each others brothers.... Thought we always would live across the street from one another, boy how life played games with us.. little did we know that her 12 and me 10 we would not see one another for years to come... reconnecting is an interesting thing for people but not with Shelly and I, we still had our memories of our time as kids. They were one of the brightest and most special times of our lives! We always had a bond it did not matter how many years went by 6, 10, we picked up like no time had past!

All the memories keep coming! Roller Town skating to Bryan Adams, Duran Duran and all the other 80's music we loved, the Valley Plaza-Swedish fish, the many bike rides around the neighborhood, night-time hide and seek with all the kids in the neighborhood, the walks to school until she had to go to Jr High, Barbies and more Barbies she had the best toys!! The sheet and blanket tents we built with our brothers throughout there whole house. Swimming in our pool.. Our favorite memory was when Shelly and I walked in the rain to 31 flavors got ice cream ate it in the rain all the way back home we sat in the puddles one of us even dropped our ice cream in the water and put it back on the cone and ate it haha. We even were partners in crime a couple times and learned you get caught so don't do it!! haha!!

Her and I are what you call friends forever... a treasure!

Shelly in the grass skirt and myself in the blue skirt in my back yard...

The second to the last time to see my dear childhood friend...

Bakersfield Woman Hit, Killed In Crosswalk

Police: Driver Not Impaired

A woman suffered fatal injuries in a slow-speed crash Wednesday night, according to Bakersfield police.Shelly Keith, 40, was struck just before 6:30 p.m. as she was crossing at the intersection of White Lane and Gosford Road.Police said 31-year-old Carlos Cordero who was driving the Ford Excursion, was turning from Gosford Road onto White Lane at about 5 mph and struck Keith.

Keith was taken to a local hospital where she died as a result of her injuries 30 minutes later.Police said Cordero driver was not impaired by drugs or alcohol. The investigation is continuing.This is the 13th pedestrian death in Bakersfield this year.