Joe Robison (1)
“Listen, maybe someone, somewhere, at sometime will read this, who is standing in the same shoes I used to walk in. My father died at the age of 32, with cirrhosis of the liver, from a life of acute alcoholism. I was ten years old. Then my mother, who had been a pharmaceutical drug addict most of her life (and in and out of Milledgeville State Hospital), died less than two years later, at 33; I was 12.”
Michael Main
“A few days earlier my mother had been in a car wreck, a month before my father had died of a heart attack. My mother spent several days in that medical limbo between life and death and I spent every hour of every one of those days in Hell.”
Henry Schaefer
“My wife called and told me that our five-month old son Pierre had just died of crib death, or sudden infant death syndrome. Whatever illusion I had that life was just a bowl of cherries disappeared forever in that instant of time.”
Christine Uwizera Coleman
“Both parents died of sickness, first my father, then my mother (in 1984 and in 1985)… I was in places where many were killed, but not me. WHY?... I saw my sister-in-law coming, tears rolling down her cheeks. I knew what she was going to tell me: ‘Your brothers were killed!’”
Tim Greenwood/Peter Masonis
“Following the death of my father from cancer, I discovered the growth of cancer on my scalp just above my hairline.”
Mike Ramirez
“When I was eight years old, my dad died as a result of leukemia.”
AJ Johnson
“When I was about ten, my father had a heart-attack… It turns out, he didn't make it.”