Death And The Family
November 26, 2019 12:29 PM Subscribe
Jan exhales and texts Andy. Andy exhales and gets ready to broadcast a football game. On this day, they've done what mothers and fathers do all the time: A child presented them with a choice. They talked about it. They made a decision. They followed through. It was, by almost any measure, a fairly ordinary act of parenting. Except for this: Josh is not their son.
This is a story about a terrible accident and the unfairness of life and the ineffable compassion of friends and that spindly, ever-spreading spider web of emotion that we all bring to our own interpretations of family: Loss, love and a promise kept for the voice of Auburn football (Sam Borden, ESPN)
This is a story about a terrible accident and the unfairness of life and the ineffable compassion of friends and that spindly, ever-spreading spider web of emotion that we all bring to our own interpretations of family: Loss, love and a promise kept for the voice of Auburn football (Sam Borden, ESPN)
I read this at lunch today and was almost in tears.
posted by lhauser at 6:55 PM on November 26, 2019
posted by lhauser at 6:55 PM on November 26, 2019
Beautifully written. They truly exemplify the Auburn Creed.
posted by dawkins_7 at 10:17 AM on November 27, 2019
posted by dawkins_7 at 10:17 AM on November 27, 2019
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