There is a special fraternity that exists for those who have lost a child. It is a fraternity that is filled with disbelief, sadness, sometimes despair, anger, resentment, and other emotions that dont easily fall within a particular classification. The event in Connecticut has touched everyone in America in different ways but the video that touched me the most was the one that showed the salt and pepper father shown next to a white van who was unconsolable upon apparently learning that his child's voice would never be heard again. I wrote a book about my son, who died of cancer at age 13, mostly as a self therapeutic effort but I later found that it helped others who had experienced a similar fate. My experience involved wathcing a child suffer for three years before his death. But also it provided so many opportunities to enjoy our life or as some might say to "say goodbye." Those that have lost a child in a sudden, inexplicable event like that in Connecticut face a different set of horrors. To those of you in Connecticut I welcome you to a faternity I wish no one had to join
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