Family grieving father killed in Whitemud Drive crash: ‘He lived for us’
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"Watching him be a father was like watching someone fulfil the purpose they were born for," Miranda Sharp said of her late fiancé Ashton Wilson.
Engaged Edmonton couple Miranda Sharp and Ashton Wilson had big dreams.
“We weren’t perfect, we were real, but there was never a day we didn’t reach for each other through joy, through struggle, through growth,” Sharp said on Thursday at their home in east Edmonton.
Sharp’s family is in mourning after a crash claimed Wilson’s life. He was driving with their daughter when the collision happened this week on the south side.
Life at Miranda Sharp’s home is carrying on as normal as can be, as she plays with her dog and took her daughter to her pre-kindergarten graduation on Thursday morning.
But just two days ago, their world was upended when her fiancé was killed.
“I was hysterically crying and not being able to accept that this was reality, it didn’t feel like the world was real anymore,” said Sharp.
Wilson was out of the house on Tuesday with their four-year-old daughter, Charlize, and before he left, he called Sharp.
“I knew he was coming straight home. I just said ‘Goodbye’, and he said, ‘I’ll see you soon’, and that was that,” Sharp said.
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