Paula Simons: Wrong lights in the wrong place couldn't save Chloe Wiwchar

Chloe Wiwchar was 16 on the Sunday night she died, struck by a pickup truck in a marked crosswalk near her home. 
Like many teens, she’d documented her life on Facebook and Instagram.
That digital diary tells us that she was beautiful. And funny. On Facebook, she described herself as a born-again Christian. She called herself  “Hennessy in a teacup” — soft on the outside but strong on the inside — a line from Instagram poet  r.h. Sin.
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