Faye Marie Swetlik, 6, disappeared from the front yard of her South Carolina home and was found dead three days later.
She danced in her mother's pregnant belly, her mother later told her. It felt like her daughter twirled, wings fluttering, to a song only she could hear. So when she was born, her mother made magic her name, and her name sounded like a song.there was a final act of magic in the life of Faye Marie SwetlikFor about 40 minutes Friday night, Faye was once again the smiling 6-year-old singing"You Are My Sunshine" on a school stage with her classmates.
This was the Faye projected on the screens in the sanctuary at Trinity Baptist Church. The video tribute was part of a public memorial in her honor. The pews were filled with about a thousand people, many with a child or two curled into their arms. Thousands more viewed the service through the church's Facebook page.
"One of the best things about Faye was her uncanny ability to bring people together," said pastor Eddie Coakley, reading from the eulogy written by Faye's mother, Selena Collins,"and everyone here today is a testimony to that." In Collins' eulogy, she asked that people honor Faye's memory through love, the most important magic. That they try to be a little bit more like Faye,"to be a little bit more kind, to compliment a stranger, to dance in the rain, to stop and smell the flowers, to show just a little more bit love to everyone you meet.
"She loved everything and everyone," the eulogy said."She wanted everyone to be as happy as she was."The celebration was held steps away from where, just days earlier, representatives of the Cayce Public Safety Department held press conferences on her disappearance and the investigation into her death.
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