Dear Sharon,

Thank you for posting this disturbing and moving tale. It's a gift of some kind. I never know quite what it is I'm supposed to learn from troubling events, I don't think the real lesson is ever as pat and simple as an Aesop's moral -- but I'm grateful to have had the chance to read about sad and sorry Bruce and his sad, solitary end and post mortem, and your part in helping life to go on. I sometimes wonder how different this world would be, how each of our lives would be altered, if alchohol and its like were just magically eliminated, if everyone had to get through life without addictive crutches. Thank you again for sharing this experience with us all, and for using it as a creative stimulus instead of a depressant.