Saturday, April 26, 2014

Condolences

A few days ago a long time manager learns that his 54 year old father died.

Not much more than that. Just that he died suddenly in a shed behind the house where he was staying.

And because his father introduced him to meth when he was a teenager he suspects the death wasn't by natural causes.

The last time he saw his dad four years ago in a Phoenix park he bought him clothes. Since then, no communication. Not really an emotional bond.

This manager has no remaining relatives from his father's generation. They mostly succumbed to drugs or alcohol. That includes his mother, who died of alcoholism when he was a teenager.

But he was lucky enough to escape the family legacy when he got sober many years ago. Since then he’s married. He and his wife are raising two children; they enjoy a nice home in the suburbs.

The children have never seen them drunk or high. They’re able to help others in recovery. They live the Promises.

Our condolences on the loss of his father.

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