´On Seattle, Dying and an Ugly Reflection´
Posted By: Maggie2u, 3/30/2019 2:54:41 AM
On a chilly night almost two years ago, in a cramped, cluttered room in a dirt-cheap motel on Aurora Avenue, I found myself sitting face-to-face with six heroin addicts. They were nice kids. They seemed tired. Wrung out. But they were honest, and funny at times, and I liked every one of them. I´ll never forget Ace, who was 30-years-old, with a closely shaved head and a slow, drawn out way of speaking. And, of course, they broke my heart.
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Eric Johnson is the reporter for KOMO news in Seattle. He´s the one who did the documentary a few weeks ago titled...Seattle is Dying. It´s available for viewing on youtube.
We have had two young people die from overdoses in the past 2 and a half years. Our DIL´s sister was 38 and left three young daughters. She lived in Utah. This past August our best friend´s DIL died of an overdose. She was also 38 and left two young children. She lived in Edmonds, a suburb of Seattle.