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On Friday, October 30th, I had the privilege of addressing the senior class of Tuckahoe High School in Eastchester. The presentation, It’s Not You Until It Is You, is a multimedia program that educates students about SUD. I was introduced by Principal Chris Fiore and then went into my talk with the students. I use levity and a conversational tone, and I got a big laugh when I told them
On Friday, October 30th, I had the privilege of addressing the senior class of Tuckahoe High School in Eastchester. The presentation, It’s Not You Until It Is You, is a multimedia program that educates students about SUD. I was introduced by Principal Chris Fiore and then went into my talk with the students. I use levity and a conversational tone, and I got a big
Onward, Ho, Jared! “You can’t go back and you can’t stand still, if the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.”
Funny, irreverent, talented, Jesus loving, rhyme spinning Joel – I’ll see you again. “I love you in a place where there’s no space and time.”
The fateful day arrived on May 17, 2015. There will never come a day, hour, minute or second that I stop loving or thinking about my son. Child loss is a loss like no other. Theo was an incredibly loved young man.
Friends flew across the country to be at his funeral, and the incredible sadness about how his death could have been prevented just permeated the air. Because of the embarrassment he felt, he never asked his friends for help.
