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Olympic skier and World Cup alpine ski racer Bode Miller (L) and his wife, professional beach volleyball player/model Morgan Beck, attend the 2018 Derek Jeter Celebrity Invitational gala at the Aria Resort & Casino on April 19, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images
Morgan Beck was understandably dreading her kids’ first day back at school on Wednesday, September 5. Just three months earlier, the volleyball player and her husband, Bode Miller, lost their 19-month-old daughter, Emeline, when she drowned in a neighbor’s swimming pool.
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In a gut-wrenching Instagram post, 31-year-old Beck shared back-to-school photos from last year, and this year. Emeline — known to her family as “Emmy” — is noticeably absent in the second image and her brother Nash, 3, is crying.
Beck noted that the family used to look forward to them being reunited with their friends and teachers. “But all I can see is Nash’s face and the giant hole that was created between last year’s picture and this year’s picture,” the athlete wrote. “I can imagine that’s what my face looked like, too, stepping back into our routine without our daughter. I imagine daily how my life would be today had I had 30 more seconds.”
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Beck and the Olympic skier, 40, are expecting their third child in October. Miller is dad of Samuel, 5, and Neeson, 10, from previous relationships.
Six-foot-3 Beck urged others to educate themselves on drowning, which is the leading cause of accidental death in children ages 1 to 4, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “This heartache doesn’t need to belong to any other parents,” she wrote on Wednesday. “Together we can change the future.”
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Emeline passed away on June 10, after falling into a pool one day earlier. “Never in a million years did we think we would experience a pain like this,” Miller revealed in an Instagram post the month of her death. “Her love, her light, her spirit will never be forgotten.”
