Mothers Against Drunk Driving "supports a substantial increase in taxation on alcoholic beverages as a means of covering the cost to society caused by misuse of alcohol". MADD "advocates that schools and other organizations hosting social and athletic gatherings for youth take positive steps to ensure that alcoholic beverages not be present at those gatherings". On May 3, 1980, Cari Lightner, a 13-year-old girl, was killed by a drunken hit-and-run driver at Sunset and New York Avenues in Fair Oaks, California. The 46-year-old driver, who had recently been arrested for another DUI hit-and-run, left Cari's body at the scene. Cari's mother, Candace (Candy) Lightner,
Woman Reading a Letter Writing a Letter", in which the young man is writing the letter. Records indicate the paintings have always been owned as a pair. Metsu likely got the idea for a pair of themed paintings from Gerard ter Borch, who had painted a similar pair, "Man Writing a Letter" and "A Woman Sealing a Letter", but the influence of Johannes Vermeer is also unmistakable in the paintings themselves. The pair of paintings were owned by Hendrick Sorgh, a broker in Amsterdam. After his death they were sold for 560 guilders on 28 March 1720 to George Bruyn. After he in turn