In Memory

Carter McKnight (Cabnet)

Reported by her daughter Heather Carter Locke, April 1998.



 
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10/27/09 05:32 PM #1    

Suzanne Miles

Dear Heather,

I think of Carter all the time and now it is nice to have a name to associate with her. Somehow I had heard sometime that Carter had passed on but it was all very vague and I didn't pursue it. I thought only of calling the Montclair Times where her Mom had worked but somehow that didn't seem all that realistic.

I lived around the corner from your Mom most of junior high and all of MHS.
We walked to school together, lugging books, sharing gossiip..... Carter was the only one I could really relate to during most of those years. We both had other friends but both of us had unusual families and were alone a lot. So we sat on Carter's bed in what seemed to me to be that huge mysterious dark house, shared diet drinks and cigarettes. Sometime Mrs. McKnight would happen home from her job (she was the only other mother ,besides mine, that worked) and say hi. Now that I think of it, the house was probably dark because we were there after school and only used Carter's room. I vaguely remember that her father might be sleeping because he worked nights on his promotional events. One time I went with them to a syncronized swimming performance that he was producing. Lots of lights and people everywhere ..............I was so sheltered that it seemed like Hollywood and Easter Williams.

Carter was very special and had bigger than life dreams then. More than most of us because her level of sophistication was greater and her imagination very vivid. I am sure you know all these things about your mother but it helps me to say them. It has taken me much too long to connect with the people from that time in my life and I regret that Carter and I lost touch so soon . I would have loved to continue that life conversation with Carter.

Suzy Miles

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