Did Yeardley Love Have to Die: Response

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After reading “Why did Yeardley Love have to die?”, I was left speechless. I could not believe that a young woman’s life was taken, by her own ex-boyfriend. The weirdest part is that George Huguely, the killer/ ex-boyfriend, admitted to assaulting Love. Whether he was going into this situation with killing her or just beating her, she is now dead. As I continued to read, I kept hearing about how both Love and Huguely were apart of lacrosse teams at their college. After knowing people that play lacrosse and also knowing people that are apart of college sports teams, you spend a lot of time with your team and you are usually very close. They must of have known at least something about their relationship. Regardless if Love would show up to practice with a black eye or not, I’m sure that at least a few girls on the team had some sort of idea of what Love and Huguely’s relationship was like. I don’t think that when someone ends up killing their ex-girlfriend, that’s the first time there was violence in their relationship. Even if there was, and Love didn’t like to speak about it, I’m sure others would have been able to seen things. It all just seems a little strange to me. After reading this, I was left with many of questions. Like, why didn’t Love ever get help? Why didn’t she ever talk to her lacrosse teammates about it? Did she ever see this coming? Did her friends ever imagine something like this to happen? Why didn’t she get out of the relationship right away? Could have this been prevented? Of course, it is impossible for me to get all the answers to these questions because Yeardley Love is dead. Her life was taken by someone that she had once been in a relationship with before. Although I’m not sure of why the couple broke up, I know that she was right by trying to escape a relationship like that, but she should have spoken up about it. This

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