Starbucks and Thirty Minute Drive Too Much for One Girl

Sunday, June 14^th, Marlen Santos passed on at age 18, to a better place due to Starbucks and too much driving. The day started out promising for Santos with much of the morning spent sleeping and the afternoon dedicated to a baccalaureate service in honor of her upcoming graduation from Loudoun Valley High School.

The trouble began with the decision to drive (along with her sisters) all the way to the fabric store. Upon discovering the long sought after store closed, some sort of consolation was in order. However, in hindsight it would seem Starbucks was the most catastrophic of choices. All was frapaccinos and (shockingly) gluten free pastries until the girls recommenced their thirty-minute drive home. Due to a combination of circumstances none of the girls could do more than speculate on (“mysterious” and “odd” to use the girls’ partially lucid statements), all of the young ladies returned to their house feeling decidedly “crappy.”

This, unfortunately, is when young Marlen Santos passed on. She led a short but eventful life; one that that touched many lives for the better despite her brief stint in jail for proffering irresponsible lies and rumors alongside Eva Gross. So close to her own graduation one can only see such a passing as a terrible tragedy. “Yeah, it’s pretty sad,” Marlen came out of her bedroom to make an official public statement after the traumatic events had had time to sink in. “But I think we’ll all muddle through, you know.” One can only applaud her bravery in the face of such Starbucks and driving related woes. To Marlen.