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🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 117 minutes
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0:00.0 | So, Berto, would you like to talk about your friend Ron? |
0:05.5 | Yeah. |
0:06.7 | What would you like to tell us? |
0:08.4 | So I had a very, very, very, very close, good friend that I met when I was 15 and I first |
0:15.5 | moved to this country. |
0:17.9 | I met him almost right away when I moved. |
0:21.1 | He was not only in my school, but he was in my bus route, and he lived down the street for me. |
0:27.3 | I will, you know, spoiler alert, the punchline recently is that he passed away. |
0:34.5 | And this is very recent. |
0:35.8 | It was about two weeks ago. |
0:40.4 | In fact, yeah, today's Tuesday, |
0:48.6 | so it's almost two weeks ago. And it was not, I mean, on the one hand, it was sudden as in, you know, it wasn't like he was hospitalized and then, but on the other hand he suffered from um addiction issues for many years |
0:59.5 | so this was always a possibility in the back of my mind yeah and you were you were for the past |
1:10.7 | 15 plus years one of the closest people to him and also |
1:16.9 | most of the time in charge of taking care of him through his cycle of addiction. |
1:25.3 | In the early years for sure, yeah. |
1:28.9 | Until you drew boundaries. Yeah. And that changes things because if you have a friend but there's like family and spouses and |
1:36.1 | kids that are more central to the ups and downs and the pain and the worry and that sort of thing. |
1:45.8 | Then that's, you know, I think that changes things. |
1:47.8 | You had to been, you've gone on your own personal journey that I'm curious how you |
1:54.4 | would describe it. |
1:55.0 | Also, I will say that I was a friend of his because he was a friend of yours. |
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