Fate Was On Her Side
Imagine for a moment how terrified Brooke must have been when she realized how close she had come to passing away on that terrible day. Just try to put yourself in her shoes. It wasn’t the fact that her mother had rescued her in the nick of time or that the two of them were familiar with how to handle potentially lethal rattlesnakes; neither of those things was true.
The reality is that rattlesnakes are extremely dangerous animals; therefore, if one of them decides to consume you as prey, you have pretty much ensured your own demise. But Brooke’s luck was in that day, because the snake had already eaten before they met, and it wasn’t hungry enough to strike. The odds were in her favor, and she avoided being bitten.