"You would just be falling down," said her aunt, Tara Downs Sanders of Lanham. "She was just so funny and I miss that."
Just 17, Miss Beck was completing a nursing program and about to graduate from Annapolis High School this spring when, with little warning, she died from complications from sickle-cell anemia.
"She had a good life ahead of her and we never expected to lose her," said her mom, Anika Downs Wilkerson of Glen Burnie.
Now, Mrs. Wilkerson, her husband Mark, Lauren's father Jody Beck and Mrs....
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