The mum of a young woman who died on her way to Creamfields "will always keep" her memory alive.
Dominique Williams, a dance and performing arts student at Edge Hill University from Maghull, was on her way to Creamfields when she was killed in a car crash in 2009, along with her friend Nicola Edgar who also died.
The 20-year-old was excited to be heading to the festival, which took place on the August Bank Holiday weekend, but she never returned home. Thirteen years on from Dominique's death on August 29, her mum Lesley Williams has paid an emotional tribute to her.
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In a public post on her Facebook page, Lesley wrote: "It's so strange as some days I don't know what I am feeling and today is one of them.
"I feel like everything is out of sync maybe because the anniversary is approaching again. It's hard to try and explain these feeling when they do come. It's almost like feeling suspended a feeling of being numb, to think it's been thirteen long years since I sat and spoke with you Dom.
"Then it feels like yesterday when you left and then you were gone. How can things seem so mixed up it's like opposites work in sync, it seems as if everything changes every time I blink."
Lesley continued: "I know that I am doing my best and don't know what else to do, it seems like something blocks me when I feel I am getting through. My heart was broke the day you left and the pain is still so raw, and every day my only wish is that you will come through the door.
"So another anniversary and I wonder what to do, I wish I could do something to let you know how much I love you! Wherever you are my special girl please know a part of me Is there too.
"And I will always keep your memory alive no matter what else I do! I love you Dom."
Speaking to the ECHO last year, Lesley issued a plea to festival goers to stay safe on the roads on their way to and from the festival. Lesley said: ""Things can so easily happen but the devastation left behind is just absolutely unbelievable, even still now. You look at the positive side and say I'm lucky I was her mum and I'm lucky I have my two boys, but I'm also lucky that everybody still remembers her.
"It's still a big deal, there's loads of flowers on her grave, there's messages. It's been constant since we lost her. It does mean so much that people still remember her. That old saying life goes on but for them it doesn't and for us it goes on but it's hard.
"Anyone going to the festival I just want them to have a ball, that was the whole reason Dom was going, for the excitement, but please be careful on your way down there. There's coach crashes, accidents on the road, just be aware of everything going on around you on your way there then once you're there enjoy yourself, raise a glass and remember her."
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