Oh how awful. What a heart break and We will pray. I am so sorry for this circumstance. Praying for everybody. What about the little boy? 


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From: Phil Scovell  <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016 6:43 pm
Subject: The End Of Life

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> This weekend brought the reality of death very close once again.  Our 
> daughter is living with a guy not far from our home.  They have lived 
> together for a long time.  He has a daughter by the name of Ada.  She is 10 
> years old and is a gifted child, meaning, of high I Q and goes to a special 
> school.  She stays weekends with Gretchen and Mike and then the following 
> weekend, Ada stays with her real mom.  Unfortunately, her real mom is an 
> alcoholic and drug addict.  The guy who lives with Ada's mom is the father 
> of a younger autistic boy whom Ada loves greatly.  On Saint Patrick's day, 
> Ada's mom began drinking,  To make a complicated story short, she drank 
> herself into a black out, aspirated, and stopped breathing.  The got her 
> breathing again at the hospital but she was in a coma.  She had been without 
> oxygen too long and could not be fully revived.  Gretchen, Ada, her dad, 
> Mike, and Ada's mom's family all were at the hospital this weekend when they 
> disconnected her from life support.  Fortunately, Ada and Gretchen are very 
> close and Ada loves Gretchen very much.  Pray for little Ada when you think 
> of her and for Gretchen, too, because my daughter has been Ada's mom, for 
> all practical purposes, for a long time but Gretchen needs our prayers, too.
> 
> Phil.