GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - It has been four months since 1 8-year-old Tami Lindemulder died in a car crash. Six people will be charged on Wednesday with giving Lindemulder the alcohol that police say contributed to the crash that killed her. Now, Lindemulder's friends want people to know she was much more than a headline.  "Sometimes it's weird because sometimes it feels like it's so long ago, but then the next minute you forget that it happened and it just seems it's so terrible that it can't be true and there's no way to accept it," said friend Olivia Mashak. Mashak and friends Bridget Underhill and Heather Ellens said when Lindemulder died, so did a part of each of them.  "When I found out, I was just like stood there and dropped everything and I bawled and bawled," said Ellens. "You just don't want time to go on at that point. You're just like, 'That's not happening. It wasn't real.' ... It just took so long to sink in." "I heard someone like screaming and crying but I didn't know who it was," said Underhill. "I got it in a text and the way it was said and the look of the text will never leave my mind." "I remember calling people [and] screaming, freaking out and having no idea what to do," said Mashak.  Ottawa County Sheriff's officials said Lindemulder was heading east on Fillmore Street near the intersection of 36th Avenue when lost control of her car and crashed on Sept. 17 in Georgetown Township. She was killed in the accident. Ottawa County Sheriff's officials said she had left an off campus party with GVSU students just before the crash and had a blood alcohol content level of .3 -- more than three times the legal limit. But that's not how her friends remember her. "One mistake doesn't define a person," said Mashak. "We want people to know how much we cared about her and how good of a person she was," said Underhill. "That's what we want people to know. That's what we want people to think about at the end of the day -- about who we lost." Since the details about Lindemulder's crash came out last week, the teens said they feel they need to defend their friend. They said it's important to share the details of who she was as a person and who she still is to them.  "Within seconds of hearing or reading anything negative that was put out there, it can bring back the feeling of when you just found out," said Underhill. "It brings back that pain instantly." The three women made a video, trying to explain who Lindemulder was: a sister, daughter, aunt and friend.

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