NPR’s StoryCorps episode aired on Weekend Edition Saturday August 28, 2021 features a mother/son discuss the death of their son/brother.
Mom asks “If there was anything you could tell him now what would you tell him?”
and the son/brother responds
there was an opportunity at his funeral to provide words to be spoken
but I wasn’t able to come up with what was really important
I thought about it for years and the thing that I would say instead was
there were times when I thought of Nathan as less than me and that I was wrong
there were times when I thought and even said to him that he would never amount to anything, and I was wrong
everything he wanted to do was important and meaningful
Mom adds that had the brothers “been given the time you guys you would have had a chance to say everything you wanted.”
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