WBUR 7/18/11: Wayland Mourns Loss Of Recent High School Grad. A coral bow adorned almost every house and business in Wayland, commemorating the young woman whose life was taken too soon. At an overflowing memorial service Saturday, friends and family described the joy and love with which 18-year-old Lauren Astley lived her life. The Wayland High School grad was planning to attend Elon University in North Carolina this fall. She loved fashion and music. The service was punctuated with music from Astley’s a cappella group The Muses, recordings of Astley singing and a performance of a lullaby her father wrote called “Nuzzling the Night.” Her uncle, Bruce Paulson, remarked on how much love and support the community has shown in the face of Astley’s death. “I implore you to keep it up,” he told the congregation. “How do we face what happened? How do we face human darkness? … We need to be together, together with courage, because the sun will come up tomorrow,” he said, referencing the popular song Astley sang in a production of “Annie.”