Mark was driving home from work very late.  He called home on his way back to say that he would be home soon, and that there was no need to wait up for him because all he wanted was a shower and bed.  Mark was very unaware how tired he was and so he drifted off to sleep while driving and ended up crashing into the trees and falling in a ditch full of water.  A fellow driver saw the accident happen and stopped his car right by road and got out and ran straight to where Mark’s car was.  He dialled the help line and within minutes the ambulance and the fire fighters were on the scene.  When they got to him he was still alive and talking.  The fire fighter started cutting him out of his car and the paramedics were helping to keep him alive and stable.  The rescue operation took more than an hour and finally he was freed from the wreckage.  Mark was badly injured and bruised.  He was airlifted to the nearest hospital but his injuries proved fatale as he was hit badly on his head.  Few minutes before arriving to the hospital Mark’s heart stopped and the paramedic tried all they could to revive him but to no avail, he was pronounced dead on arrival.

He was only 35 years old and had all his life ahead of him.  He had a gorgeous wife and a beautiful baby girl.

When Mark died she decided that she couldn’t live in LA anymore. She had nothing else to live for in there, apart from the painful memories and the many reminders of Mark everywhere she went.  She knew that it would be better for her and her little girl if she moved out and went to live with her parents on the ranch.

Nelson tried all he could to make her change her mind and persuade her to stay because he really didn’t see any future for her on the ranch and besides he grew so attached to her and she was very good for his business.  But he understood his sister and her need to move on so that she could protect the only thing she loved the most her daughter. 

America was only 3 when her father died and she couldn’t really understand what had happened and she kept asking her mother about him and wanting to know when he’d be back home thinking that he was on a business trip.  So she packed all she could of her personal items and carefully put Mark’s staff in boxes marked by his name and made sure they were coming with her to the ranch and left the rest for the removal company to do. 

Nelson decided to buy the house and Mark’s business to keep it as an investment for his niece in case she decided to come back to LA to study and work and for his sister too.  Who knows she might get fed up of living the slow life and decide to come back one day, in that case the house she so much loved and cherished will still be there for her.  Nelson suggested that Roma their young sister should come and live in the house once she graduated. 

Roma was at the University studying to be a doctor specializing in heart, lung, and kidney diseases.  She was in her twenties and was living and studying at Loma Linda University.  They both kept a close contact with her and she came home to the ranch whenever she had the chance to get away from her studies and work.  She was working as a junior doctor in the surgery department.  Roma and America looked alike as if they were sisters not auntie and niece, it was uncanny.  And Roma doted on her little niece and was always asking about her and buying her things and talking to her on the phone.  She couldn’t stay away from her for too long.