Angel, how on earth could you think we would hate you for this most unfortunate accident? As Rachel said, you are one of us...we are all friends and we are hear for each other...especially in our times of greatest need. I am so very sorry, from the bottom of my heart, that you had to be the one to hit that dog. Everything happens for a reason, and although it may be hard to see the reason in this, if nothing more, it was to help you be brave and to help you be strong. And you never know the way God works, but maybe the person that would have hit the dog instead of you would not have been so lucky, skidded out, hit another car and killed multuple passangers....you just can't tell. Maybe the reason God chose you to hit that dog was because you were the strongest person around, and God knew you would be stronger and be able to handle it the best out of all of those drivers on that road at that time. It was not your fault. It was going to happen, whether it was you or someone else.

The woman who was screaming at you probablly felt some strong emotions and did not know how to express them, and getting angry was her way of getting rid of emotions. I think that woman has some major issues to work through, when someone should react with sadness and instead they blow up with anger, they have issues. I know it is hard, but please don't take offense to that womans outburst...I strongly feel that she has some major emotional problems.

Angel, we all have things we are ashamed of, whether or not we were at fault. 2 weeks ago I saw a pit bull mix running on the left hand shoulder of a freeway that has a speed limit of 65 but people fly on this freeway at 70-80MPH. I saw the dog too late, I could not swerve to the shoulder soon enough to rescue that dog off the freeway, my safety would have been at stake, and plus I had Graham in the car and I could not risk a major dog fight in my car...so I passed the dog leaving him/her to get hit. Yes I feel terrible, but I can't do anything about it now. I chose to pass that dog and that's what I did. I decided that I could not risk a serious car accident because I skidded to a halt to swerve onto a shoulder from doing 65-70 MPH. I am sure that dog got hit but it was not my fault, nor was it the fault of the person that probablly hit it.

Please don't beat yourself up, you are a kind, gentle animal lover and you should never forget that or doubt yourself. We are all here for you, don't worry about that.
It's absolutely not your fault.