I watched a documentary last night called ’32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide”. It was rough going: I got about 30 minutes in before walking away. No one close to me has committed suicide, and I don’t dare venture into what that particular brand of hell must be like. But the central action of the film …
Last summer, days after my birthday, our family received a call in the middle of the night from my dad’s girlfriend, Pat. He’d died in her bed. Before the call to my mother-his ex-wife, I got a text sent from my dad’s phone written by Pat. It said: “Please Call It’s An Emergency”. I was …
I am-in general-a pretty happy person. I take after my mother-who used to announce every morning over her coffee: “I have a sunny disposition”. This as she took a long drag on the first cigarette of the day. I was like her. And life for me in the 50s and 60s was pretty hunky-dory until …
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