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Colleen Jenkins and Alexandra Zayas (St. Petersburg Times): TAMPA — The little girl peered out the window of the car on the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway. She was on these very lanes two years ago, headed to the beach to celebrate her mother's birthday.

Summer Moll was 4 then and hadn't yet learned what it felt like to have pins hold her tiny legs together, or a head wound that just wouldn't heal, or the knowledge that when mommies go to heaven, they don't return.

Summer, now 6, knows the exact spot where it all changed.

"Right there," she pointed, at a sign memorializing her 24-year-old mother, Jennifer O'Boyle.

"The girl hit cones and then hit us," she said.

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