Losing JonathanSpinner Publications, 2003 - 207 pagine When Bob and Linda Waxler received a phone call warning them their beloved and accomplished son Jonathan was taking heroin, they began a journey that took them through the detox hospitals and halfway houses of America. But the second call a year later, from the medical examiner in San Francisco, informing them that Jonathan had died, plunged them into the deep darkness--a long, lonely journey into the center of themselves. Their task was to survive in a world that would never again be the same, and they did survive and even triumph, incorporating Jonathan into their lives not as a lost son, but as a living spirit who is with them in a new way. |
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Introduction | 10 |
The Sparkler | 18 |
Washington and the Fir Trees | 25 |
Heroin | 32 |
A Terrible Virus | 43 |
AA Books Telephones and the Health Community | 51 |
In the Air to Hazelden | 59 |
Return to the Big Apple | 65 |
A Dreaded Disease and Two Dramatic Plays | 123 |
At the Jewish Deli | 136 |
Discovering Tradition Amidst the Rubble | 142 |
Cowboy Jonathan Remembered | 148 |
The Classroom | 154 |
Reading Writing and Arithmetic | 161 |
A Shock of Recognition | 167 |
A Practical Application | 174 |
Roosevelt Hospital and Heroin Addiction | 74 |
Heading West | 82 |
Michaels House and Manhood | 88 |
The Beats | 96 |
Talking to the Roommate | 104 |
Funeral | 112 |
A New Home and a Family Reframed | 180 |
A Survival | 188 |
Spots of Time | 194 |
Romance and Illumination | 200 |
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