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Even after her death, she was able to get people to dance. At the family gathering, eight of her girl cousins lined up to show a reporter what Taizhae loved to do best Cousins from as far away as Lakewood, N.J., jumped, dipped and swiveled to the driving rhythm of "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" Several people who were at the park when Taizhae died said she was teaching a group of women and girls to dance to "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" when the van hit her.
[Develle Stenson] had more he wanted to say about his little girl. As he spoke of her his eyes filled with tears and he weaved back and forth between the past and the present tense. "Taz was raised right. She has morals. She knew right from wrong," said Stenson, a barber who cuts hair on North Sauna Street. "She wasn't missing a mother, she wasn't missing a father, she wasn't missing her sisters or brothers. She's not missing a family. A family is missing her.""Even when the drug dealers were out here," remembered Lampkin, "they respected my wishes. They stayed away from these kids." He said Taizhae and her sisters and brothers would come by almost every day. "I just want to know what happened. How it happened. Why? Who started it? I just want it to end. Where will it end?"See the full content of this document
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Dance to Remember
The rain predicted for the afternoon of Saturday, May 31, held off while the family of Taizhae Bennett buried the cheerful 12-year-old described by her mother, Elysha Bennett, as a "danceaholic." Her family and friends gathered at noon at Farone and Sons Funeral Home on Park Street f...
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